BIB_ID
403714
Accession number
MA 8917.56
Creator
Moulton, Elizabeth, 1763-1830.
Display Date
[1810 March 6].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 23.1 x 19.7 cm
Notes
Date and place of writing determined from internal evidence. See the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, for additional information.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Congratulating EBB on "your entrance into your fifth year"; sending "a dozen Kisses for Trip [Mary Trepsack], & myself" to Henrietta on her recent birthday (on March 4th); telling EBB how proud she is to hear of her progress and behavior: "I hear you can read very prettily indeed, & very fond of your Books; that you mind whatever Papa, & Mama, says to you, in short, that you are a darling good Girl; which makes GrdMama love you, if possible, more than ever--"; sending love to "Bro" (Edward) and encouraging EBB to help him with his reading; telling her that, at dinner that day, Junius (a servant in Elizabeth Moulton's household, thought to have been born in slavery in Jamaica) poured out "a Bumper of Wine" for each of them to toast EBB's health; thanking EBB's mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, for her letter; sending love to EBB's aunt, Arabella Graham-Clarke (called by the family nickname "Bum"), and thanking her for a present; sending news to and asking for news from EBB's father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, about the Moulton-Barrett plantations in Jamaica and the Scarlett family, who also had holdings in Jamaica; writing that "Mickleham is not so pretty as when you were here, the Ground is now all coverd with Snow."
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