BIB_ID
419190
Accession number
MA 14129
Creator
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904, sender.
Display Date
Vichy, France, between 1898 and 1900.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Signed with her married name, "Isabella L. Bishop".
Written from: 20 Earls Terrace / Kensington / London W.
Dated "June 5"; Isabella Bird Bishop resided at 20 Earls Terrace from 1898 to 1900.
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Written from: 20 Earls Terrace / Kensington / London W.
Dated "June 5"; Isabella Bird Bishop resided at 20 Earls Terrace from 1898 to 1900.
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Stating that she remembers Mrs. Lascelles "with great pleasure", and recalls her meeting with Mr. Gladstone at the Lascelles home, as well as her introduction to her friends, the Milnes-Gaskells; acknowledging that she feels "very guilty about that blue Himalayan poppy", adding that she "gave some seeds experimentally to Dr. [Alfred Russel] Wallace of Malay Archipelago fame and the seedlings damped of[f] at once. It was a question of altitude he said so I sent no more but I ought to have explained."; saying that she would like to renew her acquaintance with Mrs. Lascelles, should she ever find herself in the neighborhood, and noting that she was in Bath last October, where she "made an address to a large audience on Eastern women."
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