BIB_ID
363073
Accession number
MA 7360.126
Creator
Milner, Alfred Milner, Viscount, 1854-1925.
Display Date
1819 Nov. 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 8.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph letters written to Sir Stafford Northcote in the 1860s from British politicians, foreign ministers and other notables of the period. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Reginald Macleod was married to Sir Stafford Northcote's daughter, Lady Agnes Mary Cecilia.
Written on his embossed stationery from "Sturry Court, / Sturry, / Kent."
Reginald Macleod was married to Sir Stafford Northcote's daughter, Lady Agnes Mary Cecilia.
Written on his embossed stationery from "Sturry Court, / Sturry, / Kent."
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Apologizing for being so late in replying to his kind invitation; regretting that he cannot come this year as he is "so snowed under with work that I generally have to spend Sunday in London cleaning up & on the rare occasions when I do get a Sunday in the country -- this is one of [illegible] -- I really have no choice but to go home where any number of things need looking after. Owing to my continued absence things have got into terrible disorder."
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