BIB_ID
403282
Accession number
MA 8917.18
Creator
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Display Date
1831 January.
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.3 x 18.8 cm
Notes
This single sheet of paper contains two letters: on one side, Henrietta Barrett has written a letter to Ann Henrietta Boyd, the daughter of Hugh Stuart Boyd, the classicist and friend of Elizabeth Barrett's. This letter is addressed to "Miss Boyd/ Great Malvern" and is postmarked "Ledbury." On the other side of the sheet, Elizabeth Barrett has written a letter to Ann Lowry Boyd, Hugh Stuart Boyd's wife.
On mourning stationery.
With fragments of a seal.
On mourning stationery.
With fragments of a seal.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Concerning the death of her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Moulton; recalling her grandmother's kindness and care for her; writing of her reaction to the news of her death: "And when I saw from Papa's countenance, what I did not hear from his words--that it was over--I could not resist the natural grief. I am much better now, thank God; & do not indeed give up as you seem to think--& my strength seems to be returning surely & steadily"; asking Ann to write soon.
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