BIB_ID
414563
Accession number
MA 1581.190
Creator
Smith, Martha, Mrs. William
Display Date
Bury St. Edmunds, England, 1819 February 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.7 x 19.1 cm
Notes
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. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Smith) 13.
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Grosvenor Square / London."
This letter was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Smith) 13.
Address panel with fragments of a seal to "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Grosvenor Square / London."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Writing on behalf of her husband who is too ill to write; saying "My dear Husband - who alas poor soul, He is in such a reduced state of Mind to be incapable of writing or seeing any Letters &c &c yet at times master of his faculties - He had some of yr fine Barrel of Oysters rec'd as I guess from your kind orders & desired I would write His 'Thanks, Thanks with best wishes for yrself & good Ly B. enjoying Health & Happiness.' in w'ch I beg to join - I have a most severe Trial from the heavy Visitation on my Dr. L. - but trust to be supported by the Almighty not only on the present occasion but what may yet occur. My distress is greatly alleviated by the kind attention of our neighbour the Rev'd Mr. Hasted...whose persuasive conversation comforts the poor Invalid - He has from my incapacity & request written to Mr. Coutts & Mr. Taddy more particulars than I could touch on;" sending her respects to him and to Lady Beaumont.
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