BIB_ID
273180
Accession number
MA 6448
Creator
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1844 June 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2007.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.5 cm
Notes
The letter is addressed only to "Dear Madam." A pencil annotation identifies the recipient as Elizabeth Agnew.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Michael Silverman, October 2007.
Summary
Apologizing for not writing earlier and explaining "I have been for this month past dangerously ill of Erosepilas;" sending thanks "for the beautiful, unpurchaseable present you have made me, and for the inscription so adding to its value and so peculiarly gratifying to me;" mentioning Agnew's well-known talents for drawing and writing; saying that she has become acquainted with Agnew's family and learned from them of her noble character of mind, her sense of duty, and "aspirations after the greatest good," all qualities that have inspired Edgeworth's interest in her; commenting on Agnew's conversion to Roman Catholicism: "However we may differ in opinion, I rejoice in feeling that no exclusive belief separates us from each other [...] Your hope that we may meet hereafter in happiness proves to me that the Roman Catholic faith does not preclude this belief, and I rejoice in this conviction...".
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