BIB_ID
401801
Accession number
MA 2572.1
Creator
Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825.
Display Date
1782 June 29.
Credit line
Purchased, 1967.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel: "Mrs Denman/ at Dr Denmans/ old Burlington street/ London".
Docketed and numbered: this is letter number 1.
The year of writing given on the letter may be in Elizabeth Denman's hand, rather than Anna Barbauld's.
Docketed and numbered: this is letter number 1.
The year of writing given on the letter may be in Elizabeth Denman's hand, rather than Anna Barbauld's.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Maggs, October 1967.
Summary
Giving Elizabeth Denman an account of how her son Thomas fared on the journey from London to Palgrave, and how his arrival at the school has gone so far: "We got in this morning between nine & ten, after as pleasant a journey as one could expect in travelling all night. My little charge was quite merry & full of talk the first stage or two, then he composed himself very quietly to sleep, of which he took so good a dose that he was quite lively when we got to Palgrave, & has been running about ever since. I never saw a child so easy & contented among strangers. I make the observation to day, for to morrow I see that none of the family will be strangers to him"; writing that "we shall endeavour to make him happy, & justify the great confidence you have placed in us"; sending her and her husband Rochemont Barbauld's compliments to Dr. Thomas Denman, and "your little boy sends his love."
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