BIB_ID
411173
Accession number
MA 9466.2
Creator
Compton, Henry, 1805-1877.
Display Date
1871 October 26.
Credit line
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1962.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Compton gives the place of writing as "12. Stanford Road, / Kensington."
Part of a collection of 128 letters to William Alfred Turner formerly accessioned as MA 2243.
Part of a collection of 128 letters to William Alfred Turner formerly accessioned as MA 2243.
Summary
Saying that she must have assumed by now that he is a person "totally ignorant of the forms and amenities of wellbred people, outside the pale of refined society, an outcast from the social world and to sum up the case with true emphasis and feminine force that I am a 'Wretch'"; explaining that he has only taken so long to respond to her request for a photograph because he didn't have a good picture of himself and didn't want to "seriously disfigure your album"; writing that the enclosed is "the best that can be done with a bad subject"; sending his kindest regards to "my friend Turner" (probably her husband William Alfred Turner).
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