BIB_ID
403818
Accession number
MA 8917.63
Creator
Moulton, Elizabeth, 1763-1830.
Display Date
[1818 January].
Credit line
Acquired from the University of Illinois, 1961.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to: "Miss Barrett."
With a seal.
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.
With a seal.
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
Sending best New Year's wishes to EBB and "all my beloved pets at Hope End"; telling her that "dearest Babes" (EBB's sister Arabella) is very well and "indeed my Beloved Ba, she promises to be very clever, no present seems so welcome to her as a Book"; writing that she herself has been ill and confined to the house for three weeks; mentioning that she has enclosed various presents in the box in which this letter is being sent, including a cake, a frock and six pocket handkerchiefs for EBB: "dont mind their being coloured ones, they do very well for the country"; writing that "Mamas account of Darling Storm [Charles John] is quite enchanting, tell him Gr Ma is very very happy to hear he is such a good Boy"; mentioning that Dr. Nuttall has been attending her and sends his regards; writing of the weather, "I hope you have a clearer Atmosphere than we have, there is now so thick a fog that we can scarcely see"; sending love from herself and Mary Trepsack to the whole family, including EBB's aunt Arabella Graham-Clarke; sending her regards to EBB and Edward's tutor Daniel McSwiney.
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