BIB_ID
431165
Accession number
MA 1617.209
Creator
Jenkin, Anne Austin, -1921.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1878?
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.1 cm
Notes
This letter is one of twenty-nine letters from Anne Jenkin to Henley, most of which are undated, but appear to have been written between 1878 -1883.
Written from "G't Stuart Street / Edinburgh" on stationery engraved with the address.
The letter is undated but follows on previous letters which appear likely to have been written in 1878.
Written from "G't Stuart Street / Edinburgh" on stationery engraved with the address.
The letter is undated but follows on previous letters which appear likely to have been written in 1878.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Concerning a possible move to by Henley; saying "I write today to beg you not to dread the climate of Manchester should you go there for a time. I lived there for 5 years as a girl & have often stayed there - & have always found it healthy. Try to live out of town - somewhere nearish to the Scotts - or at Cheetham Hill - There are lots of lodgings [illegible] to be had - & endless trams & trains for getting into town. If you will allow me I shall ask my old friend Miss Gaskell to come & see you & Mrs. Henley. She is the daughter of Mrs. Gaskell & a very clever woman, a friend of mine since we were 10 & 11 years old. How much I wish you all that is good & pleasant & free from care. My husband is going to write you about Cleo. She possesses me - So great a creature - & yet so condescendingly small - as if to admit me to her confidence - I never knew. All that I know of M'lle Clairon is that I was delighted to read in a brochure by Legouvé that she approached her heroines as I have always done mine, i.e. she made an ideal form or picture much larger than herself, & then poured herself into it."
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