BIB_ID
378150
Accession number
MA 1294.46
Creator
Hobhouse, Amelia Parry, -1880.
Display Date
[1834?].
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with fragment of a seal to "Edward Hobhouse Esqr."
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
The year of writing and the identity of the author is from a penciled notation beneath the signature which gives 1834 as the year and identifies the author of the letter as the 2nd wife of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse. The identity of the Julia and Amelia to whom she refers is unclear. It is possible that Adolphus may be Adolphus Edward Paget Graves, the brother of Charlotte Graves Hobhouse who is Edward Hobhouse's wife. Adolphus would have been 13 years old at the time of writing.
Written on mourning paper.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
The year of writing and the identity of the author is from a penciled notation beneath the signature which gives 1834 as the year and identifies the author of the letter as the 2nd wife of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse. The identity of the Julia and Amelia to whom she refers is unclear. It is possible that Adolphus may be Adolphus Edward Paget Graves, the brother of Charlotte Graves Hobhouse who is Edward Hobhouse's wife. Adolphus would have been 13 years old at the time of writing.
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Asking if "Adolphus remembers my calling for him with dear Julia to take him to spend the day at her house when we were all staying there. Amelia writes in kindest love to dearest Charlotte & yourself with my beloved Edward / your fondly affec't mother / A Hobhouse."
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