Record ID:
301752
Accession number:
MA 7655
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2010.
Description:
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.2 cm.
Notes:
Annotated at the end of the letter in a contemporary hand: "Miss M. Edgeworth the Authoress".
Summary:
Edgeworth writes to her publisher to request, on behalf of one of Lord Longford's daughters, twenty-five copies of the portrait of her father [Edward, Lord Longford], which had appeared in the memoirs of [Maria's father] Richard Lovell Edgeworth [published by Hunter]. She asks to be informed of the cost, & she will confirm with Lord Longford's daughter the precise number required. She also sends news from Edgeworthstown of the ailing Mrs. Sneyd (now in her ninety-first year).
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