BIB_ID
394150
Accession number
MA 13181.2
Creator
Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael), 1825-1894.
Display Date
[1890?] "Saty".
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18 cm
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
General account of family and daily activities, including golf with his son Hans, his wife's brother, William Grant and "Old Usher", despite the inclement weather ("It is a wet day, alas! Old Usher & Willie, Hans & I have been playing golf in the sitting room!"); writing to his printer Constable about cuts; his son Ted's departure for Harrow; Miss Robinson's "Officer's Hotel" in Portsmouth; and plans for his wife to join the family in Crawford.
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