BIB_ID
400064
Accession number
MA 8762.8
Creator
Airlie, Henrietta Blanche, Countess of, 1830-1921.
Display Date
[1883?] June 10.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.2 x 9.8 cm
Notes
Acquired as part of a large collection of letters addressed to William Angus Knight, Chair of Moral Philosophy at the University of St. Andrews and Wordsworth scholar. Items in the collection have been individually accessioned and cataloged.
The year of writing is not given, however, it is possible the year is 1883 and perhaps follows up on a letter in the collection, written on April 3, 1883 (MA 8762.2), in which the Countess of Airlie comments on how pleased she is that "Miss Sellers is liked" at St. Andrews.
Written from "47 Grosvenor Street" on mourning stationery.
The year of writing is not given, however, it is possible the year is 1883 and perhaps follows up on a letter in the collection, written on April 3, 1883 (MA 8762.2), in which the Countess of Airlie comments on how pleased she is that "Miss Sellers is liked" at St. Andrews.
Written from "47 Grosvenor Street" on mourning stationery.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Apologizing that she does not have an address for Miss Sellers but she will send it if she finds it; adding "The excitement here is subsiding a little but I am afraid the country has years of difficulty before it - Gladstone is quite happy & sanguine as to the eventual success of his measure."
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