BIB_ID
404529
Accession number
MA 8981
Creator
Birrell, Eleanor, 1854-1915
Display Date
[1886].
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Signed "Eleanor Tennyson."
Birrell gives the place of writing as "Aldworth / Haslemere / Surrey."
On mourning stationery.
No date of writing is given on the letter, but based on internal evidence and the use of mourning stationery, it appears to have been written in 1886, the year of Lionel Tennyson's death.
Formerly MA 3838.
Birrell gives the place of writing as "Aldworth / Haslemere / Surrey."
On mourning stationery.
No date of writing is given on the letter, but based on internal evidence and the use of mourning stationery, it appears to have been written in 1886, the year of Lionel Tennyson's death.
Formerly MA 3838.
Summary
Writing that, a few weeks ago, she had gone to Sussex Place to pick up "a few things that were precious to me" and she discovered there a letter from Eliza Field telling her of John Field's illness; explaining that the letter had not reached her beforehand because of the "confusion of the house letting & our frequent changes of residence last year before going to India"; sending her sympathies: "Dear, dearest friends, I trust & pray God will give you every possible comfort and strength--you know you have my tender love & sympathy & that I have thought you of much & lovingly & always shall"; mentioning that her father- and mother-in-law, Alfred and Emily Tennyson, are well; writing about her sons: "I have the comfort of seeing my boys the very picture of health & strength & I think all, both in mind & body, that their Father could have wished"; enclosing a photograph of the youngest boy (no longer with the letter); signing off with "the whole sympathy of a loving heart.
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