BIB_ID
314295
Accession number
MA 7799.17
Creator
Broughton, Rhoda, 1840-1920.
Display Date
"Thursday" [1919?] Apr. 24.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
Elizabeth Asquith, daughter Herbert Henry Asquith, British Prime Minister from 1908-1916, married Prince Bibesco, a Romanian diplomat, on April 29, 1919.
Part of a large collection of letters to Joan Severn. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing is inferred from contents of the letter; April 24th falls on a Thursday in 1919.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "Delverne, / Farnham, Surrey."
Part of a large collection of letters to Joan Severn. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing is inferred from contents of the letter; April 24th falls on a Thursday in 1919.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written on stationery embossed "Delverne, / Farnham, Surrey."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Discussing the upcoming royal wedding of and the "exultation over ...[the] Prince and Princess Bibesco..so like characters in a Comic Opera;"; saying she is going to River View in Oxford the following week.
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