BIB_ID
394217
Accession number
MA 13208
Creator
Barlow, Jane, 1857?-1917.
Display Date
[1904?] Aug. 11.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 16 cm
Notes
Jane Barlow received her honorary doctorate degree in literature from Dublin University in the spring of 1904.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Riggs (formerly Wiggin) was an American writer and educator and author of the children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Written on black-edged mourning stationery bearing her home address: The Cottage, Raheny, Co. Dublin.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Riggs (formerly Wiggin) was an American writer and educator and author of the children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
Written on black-edged mourning stationery bearing her home address: The Cottage, Raheny, Co. Dublin.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Thanking her for her congratulations on receiving a doctorate degree and congratulating the recipient in turn on the receipt of her own doctorate; expressing her feeling that she never has and never shall live up to the honor ("which made me feel in my scarlet and blue gown like some owlish sort of fowl, who had 'borried the loan' of a macaw's feathers, and didn't find them by any means suitable wear"); praising the recipient's Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and its efficacy in cheering up her father during a recent bout of influenza which likewise afflicted her entire household; briefly describing her current stay in Wales with her father; and noting that she has been studying Gaelic "with very small success."
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