BIB_ID
428572
Accession number
MA 23198.9
Creator
Gurney, Emelia Russell, 1823-1896.
Display Date
Hereford, England, 1886 June 23.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm + envelope address panel
Notes
Envelope address panel with postage and postmarks to "John Field Esq / New Hampshire Avenue / Washington D.C. / U.S.A." with "Please forward" in the upper left corner. The address has been crossed though in red pencil and "Ashfield / Mass" written in the lower left corner.
This letter was acquired with a large collection of letters written to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field and was previously accessioned MA 3838.
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
Thanking him for his letters and expressing her hope that he and Mrs. Field are comfortably settling into their new home in Ashfield [Massachusetts]; adding "Just now I am so enjoying the swaying of large Copper beech branches against the sky, & a sloping windswept field of long grass & sorel [sic] - & wheeling whirling birds under a grey cloudy sky with but rare darting glints of sunshine - I wonder whether you saw 3 articles in the Nation by Albert Dicey - I thought them so just in their criticisms of Gladstone & the relationship to him of the many - the 2nd article was 17th May - Now I have all this time left that pretty little Vol. of Whittier unthanked! I did enjoy getting it & reading it by your side on my return to England - since that day nearly 3 weeks ago I have been swamped in just coming back - my body seized & imbedded by a bad cold - my anxious thoughts by seeing my sweet Ellen so knocked up by our journey & wondering with her how she was to adapt her little strength to all that comes upon her at St. Barnabas - Then came difficulties about Drains at little Orme - Oh, I hope yours are all masterly at Ashfield! & then my run to my dear Uncle [John Venn] here who had been ailing but whom I now find really very well & very beautiful for 84 - & here was dearest CES so wondrously better - looking robust & walking to the Station to meet me & telling me she was a Mugwhump [sic] & you are a Mugwhump & I was a Mugwhump - is the word right? I half doubt but I am it there is no kind of doubt - She is now back at her Pleasant Mount & rejoicing in well chosen walls & curtains - & in making runs out of them to stay with friends in all directions - dear Uncle John several times has said & how is that very nice American Gentleman who came back with you? & I tell him you are suffering & perhaps will not lengthen out here till his age - & he first sighs & then says it is well - & he makes little prayers for you & your dear one - Adieu Adieu."
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