BIB_ID
107681
Accession number
MA 9822
Creator
Congreve, George, 1835-1918.
Credit line
Purchased, 1970.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Contains a letter in pencil on the verso of the second leaf: "Dear Mr Hewett, / Here is Father Con- / -greve's answer alas / no you see but / such a nice letter / May I have it back / again to keep. Yours / Juliet." Based on this and the salutation "Miss Temple," it appears that Congreve's letter is addressed to Juliet Latour Temple (later Madame Deschamps), Lady Mount-Temple's daughter.
No year of writing is given, but given Lady Mount-Temple's birth and death dates, it was most likely written in the 19th century. Congreve first became associated with the Society of St. John the Evangelist through their Mission House in Oxford in 1873.
On stationery with blind embossed letterhead: "S. John's Mission House, / Oxford."
Formerly catalogued as MA 4446.
No year of writing is given, but given Lady Mount-Temple's birth and death dates, it was most likely written in the 19th century. Congreve first became associated with the Society of St. John the Evangelist through their Mission House in Oxford in 1873.
On stationery with blind embossed letterhead: "S. John's Mission House, / Oxford."
Formerly catalogued as MA 4446.
Provenance
Purchased from Joan Enders of Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1970 as part of a collection of letters from Baron Mount-Temple to various recipients.
Summary
Declining an invitation; explaining that he has a retreat for a week in Norfolk and another engagement in Folkestone scheduled at around the same time; writing that it is a "real disappointment to have the chance of doing a small service to Lady Mount Temple, & not to be able to take it - That is only the feeling of a moment, there is no real disappointmen[t] except in [Self will?]"; saying that they will have a much better sermon than he could deliver; asking to be remembered to Lady Mount-Temple.
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