BIB_ID
301752
Accession number
MA 7655
Creator
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
Display Date
London, England, 1841 February 9.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2010.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Edgeworth addresses her correspondent only as "Mr. Hunter," but based on the contents of the letter, it is most likely her publisher Rowland Hunter.
Written from "1 North Audley Street," an address in London.
Annotated at the end of the letter in a contemporary hand: "Miss M. Edgeworth the Authoress".
Written from "1 North Audley Street," an address in London.
Annotated at the end of the letter in a contemporary hand: "Miss M. Edgeworth the Authoress".
Summary
Writing to her publisher to request, on behalf of one of Lord Longford's daughters, twenty-five copies of the portrait of her father, Edward Pakenham, Baron Longford, which had appeared in the memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (published by Hunter); asking to be informed of the cost and saying she will confirm with Lord Longford's daughter the precise number required; sending news from Edgeworthstown of the ailing "Mrs. M. Sneyd" (probably Mary Sneyd), now in her ninety-first year, and mentioning that Honora Edgeworth Beaufort has gone to take care of her; writing that her suffering is purely physical and her "faculties understanding and warm affections remain [...] I mention these details to you as I know your grateful regard for her whom all our family so love & respect;" sending greetings from Mrs. Wilson (probably Frances Maria Edgeworth Wilson), who continues to be "a prisoner to the house & still lyeing upon her sofa," but whose medical attendant says she is recovering.
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