BIB_ID
300152
Accession number
MA 1063.1
Creator
Barrow, Rosamund Hester Elizabeth, 1810-1906.
Display Date
Thursday.
Credit line
Gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1928.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from Sir Thomas Lawrence to the Irish politician and writer J. W. Croker. Letters have been described individually; see collection-level record for MA 1063 for more information.
Written on mourning paper.
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co in 1928; gift of J.P. Morgan, Jr. in 1928.
Summary
Mentioning that "today being the Eclipse I thought I should stay at home but Mamma says I must go to school ... so off I go against all my reason." With a postscript apologizing for her dreadful scrawl."
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