BIB_ID
389758
Accession number
MA 14549
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 box (circa 243 items)
Notes
The majority of the letters comprising the collection are undated and have been annotated in pencil by Greenwood's biographer and former owner of the letters, J.W. Robertson Scott, with dates derived from postmarked envelopes which formerly accompanied the correspondence, but which were evidently removed from the collection at some point before it was eventually acquired by the Morgan Library & Museum. See: Robertson Scott, J. W. The story of the Pall Mall gazette, 1950, page 342.
10 letters from Sir James Barrie to Jessy Greenwood comprising part of this collection have been cataloged separately and filed in Unbound Ray under "Barrie".
10 letters from Sir James Barrie to Jessy Greenwood comprising part of this collection have been cataloged separately and filed in Unbound Ray under "Barrie".
Inscriptions/Markings
Many of the letters are extensively marked and annotated in pencil by former owner, J.W. Robertson Scott.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of J.W. Robertson Scott; bequest of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Collection of ca. 243 letters written by Frederick Greenwood to family and associates; with 164 letters to his daughter Kate Greenwood concerning local travel, the weather, literary and domestic matters, politics, and friends and colleagues, including various members of the Barrie, Stevenson, Patmore, and Vizetelly families, etc.; also included are letters from his son Edgar Greenwood (13), and his daughters Kate Greenwood (13), and Jessy Greenwood (15).
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