BIB_ID
397563
Accession number
MA 13443
Creator
Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1835-1915.
Display Date
1894 July 9.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Signed "Mary Maxwell".
Stamped and postmarked envelope addressed "Miss Nevill / 45 Charles Street / Berkeley Square / London. W."
Stamped and postmarked envelope addressed "Miss Nevill / 45 Charles Street / Berkeley Square / London. W."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Declining an invitation and recounting a "charming luncheon" she attended at the recipient's home in the company of Miss Nevill's mother, Lady Dorothy Nevill; with references to Lady Betty Balfour and her father, Robert Bulwer-Lytton ("[Lady Betty Balfour's] father was so kind to me - in too kindly acknowledging an article I wrote about his father - & to my brother in India he was an unswerving & beneficent Providence, to save him from flagrant injustice on the part of a Sir Something Somebody, whose name I forget.").
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