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Autograph letter signed : St. Moritz, to an unidentified recipient, [1848] Aug. 19.

BIB_ID
311479
Accession number
MA 429.3
Creator
Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893.
Display Date
[1848] Aug. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 21.1 cm
Notes
Dated "Saturday August 19." August 19 fell on a Saturday in 1848. See also Kemble's Further Records, 1848-1883 (1891), p. 264-271, in which her letters place her in St. Moritz in 1848.
Part of a large collection of letters of Sir Walter Scott's friends and contemporaries; see collection-level record for more information.
Recipient's name is illegible, but may read "Macdane."
Written from "St. Moritz / Engadine" on blue graph paper.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. in 1900.
Summary
Saying his letter was forwarded to her as she continues her "present wandering through Switzerland;" mentioning Miss Sedgwick; concerning her promise to send him something through London.