BIB_ID
413569
Accession number
MA 1581.9
Creator
Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851.
Display Date
Hampstead, 1824 December 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.7 x 19 cm + wrapper
Notes
Baillie gives the place of writing as Hampstead, which is located in the Borough of Camden, London.
Wrapper with intact seal and postmarks addressed in Baillie's hand to: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch." The address and the date of writing are repeated on the center panel of the wrapper, but in another hand.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Baillie) 2.
Wrapper with intact seal and postmarks addressed in Baillie's hand to: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Coleorton Hall / Ashby de la Zouch." The address and the date of writing are repeated on the center panel of the wrapper, but in another hand.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Baillie) 2.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Asking Beaumont if he would lend his support to Charles Bell, who was about to "stand candidate for the Professorship of Anatomy for the Royal Academy"; referring to Bell's "very able work on the anatomy of expression, published several years ago"; explaining that she would not "intermeddle with such matters" but Bell has asked for her assistance, and she considers herself obliged to him; adding that her brother Matthew Baillie had also supported him "on a former, similar occasion"; saying that, as Beaumont is an honorary academician, she supposes that he has the ability to vote for Bell, as well as having influence with other members of the academy: "should the election take place when you are in Town or should voting by proxy be allowed, I hope you will honour him with your vote which would be a gratifying testimony of his merit"; mentioning that she hopes he and Lady Beaumont have not suffered from the "long track of wet weather" that they have had in London; adding "my sister & I have been much confined to the house by it for a great while, and are almost longing for frost, tho' at our age it is not very agreeable neither. We are difficult to please now. Some 50 years ago, I slid upon the ice the whole morning and wondered that people called it cold"; wishing Beaumont and his wife a "merry Xmas."
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