BIB_ID
423681
Accession number
MA 2092.2
Creator
Field, Michael.
Display Date
London, England, 1897 February 22.
Credit line
Gift of H. Bradley Martin, 1960.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.7 x 8.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on stationery of the "University Club for Ladies / 47, Maddox Street, W." to "My Merle", signed "Michael" and marked "Private."
Miss Bradley has dated the letter "Feb. 1897". The postmark is London, February 22, 1897.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks to "Miss Cooper / Durdans / Reigate / Surrey."
Housed with several small petals which were enclosed in this letter. The stain of the petals is visible on the first page of the letter.
Letters from Katharine Bradley to Edith Cooper are variously signed as "Michael" and "The Master" and written to Miss Cooper as "Merle" and "Hennie."
Letters MA 2092.2 through MA 2092.8 were wrapped in a folded sheet of blue stationery on which Edith Cooper has written "Master's / beloved Letters / from Hastings / in February 1897."
This letter is part of a collection of correspondence by and to Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper dating from 1888 to 1910. See the collection record for more information (MA 2092.1-48).
Miss Bradley has dated the letter "Feb. 1897". The postmark is London, February 22, 1897.
Envelope with stamp and postmarks to "Miss Cooper / Durdans / Reigate / Surrey."
Housed with several small petals which were enclosed in this letter. The stain of the petals is visible on the first page of the letter.
Letters from Katharine Bradley to Edith Cooper are variously signed as "Michael" and "The Master" and written to Miss Cooper as "Merle" and "Hennie."
Letters MA 2092.2 through MA 2092.8 were wrapped in a folded sheet of blue stationery on which Edith Cooper has written "Master's / beloved Letters / from Hastings / in February 1897."
This letter is part of a collection of correspondence by and to Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper dating from 1888 to 1910. See the collection record for more information (MA 2092.1-48).
Provenance
Gift of H. Bradley Martin, 1960.
Summary
Saying "This is my first letter! I am terribly self conscious - I quiver ... I want my Merle! Let me tell you the character of our Club is changing. There are ladies here who drink beer for lunch. Being half-drunk with good claret I naturally resent this! Listen, Merle. I have secured a good, central dress circle - (a return the liars say!) & behold I go, in my singleness, to Court. Like Solomon, I feel like a little child : I know not how to go out, or how to go in. I do not beg to inquire whether this has anything to do with the claret. In any case I have had a long talk with Ricketts clerk on asylums for the aged. We agree all men should retire at 60 to give the young a chance. They should be provided plentifully with Tobacco. Merle, my Merle! I drink to thee in the black cup. Thou - O my Love! / Michael;" adding, in a postscript written at the top of the first page, "No fear if I am not home till ten; if I saw the Mauds & they asked me to tea - par example."
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