BIB_ID
428548
Accession number
MA 23198.5
Creator
Gurney, Emelia Russell, 1823-1896.
Display Date
London, England, 1886 February 12.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.1 cm + envelope address panel
Notes
Envelope address panel with postage and postmarks to "Mrs. John Field / 224 New Hampshire Avenue / Washington, D.C. / U.S.A."
Written from "3, Orme Square" on stationery engraved with the address.
This letter was acquired with a large collection of letters written to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field and was previously accessioned MA 3838.
Written from "3, Orme Square" on stationery engraved with the address.
This letter was acquired with a large collection of letters written to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field and was previously accessioned MA 3838.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Summary
Offering her support and empathy to Mrs. Field in caring for her invalid husband and extending her sympathy on the loss of their niece; commenting on the [Trafalgar Square] riot the previous Monday and saying "You will be glad to know that I was not one of the ladies pulled out of their carriages last Monday afternoon! A friend had just been calling who went in to a hospital having driven there in his Victoria & his Coachman in the meantime saw the end of the mob surround a Brougham - turn a lady out & then wrench its 2 doors off & smash its windows & etc - So many of the speeches remind me of French revolution beginning ones - all Government - its very idea seems now to be discarded - What do people wish is the question - & the loudest words & most violent acts as in Ireland are to be yielded to as the true expressions of the general wish - The last 3 days we have been in the utter most anxiety about dear Lord Mount-Temple - he still hangs between life & death - but hope preponderates this morning."
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