BIB_ID
423643
Accession number
MA 22900.2
Creator
Bradley, Katharine Harris, 1846-1914.
Display Date
Isle of Wight, England, 1884.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.1 x 9.4 cm
Notes
Removed from Michael Field's Callirrhoë. 1884. PML 51360.
The letter is undated but appears to have been written shortly after Bradley's lengthly letter to Symonds (see MA 22900.1) which was written in late July or early August 1884.
The letter is undated but appears to have been written shortly after Bradley's lengthly letter to Symonds (see MA 22900.1) which was written in late July or early August 1884.
Summary
Apologizing for sending her letter to him in Switzerland "...with an ordinary English penny stamp. I had neither foreign paper nor envelopes & feeling that my letter was a weighty one - not in S. Paul's sense - I explained to the post-man that he must have it weighed & properly stamped. When this morning I received a message that he had forgotten all about my commission until too late, I was so wrathful that only the terror of my land-lady - a comely country woman evidently unaccustomed to dramatic rage, restrained me from threatening that postman with Aeschylean [illegible]. I am now going to travel to Totland to get a postal-note wh. will I hope cover the extra postage : I want the postman to be made to do something uncomfortable but it is hopeless to get justice done in this world. Meanwhile please do not charge me with being careless & unpractical : I sincerely regret that an unstamped letter should have been received from Michael."
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