BIB_ID
426643
Accession number
MA 23043.4
Creator
Gaskell, Julia Bradford, 1846-1908.
Display Date
Manchester, 1886 December 12?.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 cm + envelope address panel
Notes
Envelope address panel with postage and postmarks to "Mrs. Field / 1400 New Hampshire Avenue, / Washington, "D.C." / America."
Formerly accessioned MA 3838.
Written on stationery blind-embossed "84, Plymouth Grove, / Manchester" and dated "Sunday 12th".
The month and year of writing is not provided but from the references to the failing health of Mr. Field it is likely the letter was written in December 1886 as the 12th of December was a Sunday in 1886. Mr. Field died March 17, 1887.
Formerly accessioned MA 3838.
Written on stationery blind-embossed "84, Plymouth Grove, / Manchester" and dated "Sunday 12th".
The month and year of writing is not provided but from the references to the failing health of Mr. Field it is likely the letter was written in December 1886 as the 12th of December was a Sunday in 1886. Mr. Field died March 17, 1887.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Summary
Expressing her grief at receiving news of Mr. Field's suffering; saying "I can think of how much you must be passing through in seeing his pain, and I can only send tender loving thoughts to you, and pray for you both - Dear Mr. Field - how brave and true and noble he is, and how much he has helped others on their life by his example and sympathy and love. I won't trouble you with reading a long letter you know that your sorrow is ours too for we are fond of you both;" adding, in a postscript, "Meta is in London but I am sending her the letter that makes me so sad. God comfort you both."
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