Letter from Anna Swanwick, Blackmoor Vivcarage, Liss, to Miss Cooper, 1889 August 12 : autograph manuscript signed.

Apologizing for the delay in replying to her request for a photo; saying "I feel gratified that your dear Mother should feel sufficient interest in me to care to see my picture & most heartily do I wish that I could gratify her. Shortly before leaving London, I wrote to Mr. Hollyer, requesting him to let me have a dozen copies of the photo, taken from Mr. Lowes Dickinson's portrait, & to forward them to my address in the country. I have been hoping from day to day that they might arrive, & that I might have the g't pleasure of forwarding one to Blackberry Lodge, & it has been in this expectation that I have delayed answering your missive. I am disappointed by their non-arrival, & am sorry that I did not obey the impulse which prompted me to write forthwith, on the receipt of your letter. I think now that Mr. Hollyer must be out of London, & I may probably have to wait a considerable time before he complies with my wishes; Be assured that when they arrive, my first care will be to forward one for your acceptance. i cannot but feel a warm & affectionate interest in Mrs. Cooper, as Miss Bradley's sister & as the mother of my dear young friend, Edith Cooper, & most deeply do I sympathize with her long & patient endurance of pain & suffering, through which her spirit is prepared to enter into her Heavenly rest."