BIB_ID
314302
Accession number
MA 7799.18
Creator
Broughton, Rhoda, 1840-1920.
Display Date
" Friday" [1918] Dec. 6.
Credit line
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen, 1974.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
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.
Probable year of writing inferred from contents of the letter; reference is made to the Elections and to the "Women who are standing;" the Qualification of Women Act was passed in 1918 and the first elections in which women could vote was in December 1918.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written from "Delverne / Farnham / Surrey."
Probable year of writing inferred from contents of the letter; reference is made to the Elections and to the "Women who are standing;" the Qualification of Women Act was passed in 1918 and the first elections in which women could vote was in December 1918.
This collection was part of Helen Gill Viljoen's large bequest of John Ruskin-related material (formerly MA 3451).
Written from "Delverne / Farnham / Surrey."
Provenance
Bequest of Helen Gill Viljoen in 1974.
Summary
Referring to her [Joan Severn] move back into London without the "Salvo of Bombs" she had last year; discussing the increasing quantities of coal for home heating due to the decreasing consumption by the Navy; asking if she is hearing news of the Elections and commenting on the women who are standing saying "What a Monkey House of Chattering & Caterwauling the House of Commons will be."
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