BIB_ID
193158
Accession number
MA 4423
Creator
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
Display Date
Edgeworthstown, Ireland, 1844 May 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1985.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written from: Edgeworths Town.
Earlier catalog records identify Mrs. Hughes only as the wife of John C. Hughes. She may be Margaret Elizabeth Wilkinson Hughes (1797-1887), second wife of the author John Hughes.
Mounted on cardstock.
Earlier catalog records identify Mrs. Hughes only as the wife of John C. Hughes. She may be Margaret Elizabeth Wilkinson Hughes (1797-1887), second wife of the author John Hughes.
Mounted on cardstock.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer H. D. Lyon, 29 July 1985.
Summary
Thanking her for helping to find a copy of a Grace beginning "Some have meat and cannot eat it;" giving the full text of the Grace and commenting on the rhyme; saying how happy she is to be home and to have found everyone there well; describing the pleasant time she spent with her sister over the winter and spring, "meeting with so many kind friends of long standing unchanged - yourself among the number;" mentioning that Mrs. Edgeworth (her stepmother Frances) is about to set off for London, accompanied by her son Pakenham, and she will spend the summer at No. 1 North Audley Street with Fanny and Lestock Wilson.
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