BIB_ID
403790
Accession number
MA 8917.60
Creator
Moulton, Elizabeth, 1763-1830.
Display Date
[1811 May].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.6 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Date of writing estimated from internal evidence. No place of writing is given, but the published editions of the correspondence, cited below, suggest this may have been written from London.
Provenance
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Summary
Thanking EBB for her letter and telling her that she is "very much improved in her writing--which makes GdMama most happy indeed--somebody whispered to her, how good her dear Ba continued to be, which was the reason of her sending the Tippet--"; sending news about the health and movements of EBB's uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett; writing that they (herself and Mary Trepsack) are sorry to hear that EBB's father and sister "Harry" (Henrietta) are so naughty, and telling her that she should give them her opinion about "drinking the waters, the good it will do them, tell Papa, it will take away his headache altogether"; mentioning that she is happy to hear that Mary Moulton-Barrett's stockings fit her and that she has not had a return of her headache; telling EBB that she must call at the shoemakers and scold them "for not sending our Boot, & Shoe"; sending her love to family friends, to EBB's parents, her aunt Charlotte Graham-Clarke, and her siblings Edward, Henrietta and Mary; in a postscript, adding news about "Handsome Sam" (Samuel Barrett, the son of EBB's cousin Elizabeth Barrett Williams).
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