BIB_ID
431195
Accession number
MA 1617.214
Creator
Jenkin, Anne Austin, -1921.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1881 December 16.
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Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 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 "3 G't Stuart Street / Edinburgh" on stationery engraved with the address.
Year of writing from a penciled notation at the top of the letter and from a published letter to Robert Louis Stevenson dated December 17, 1881 in which Henley says "I must go north & see "Griselda." The Jenk is hard at work at it; & if he had but a Marquis, he would be perfectly happy." The published letter is in "The Selected Letters of W. E. Henley" edited by Damian Atkinson. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000, pp. 98-105.
Written from "3 G't Stuart Street / Edinburgh" on stationery engraved with the address.
Year of writing from a penciled notation at the top of the letter and from a published letter to Robert Louis Stevenson dated December 17, 1881 in which Henley says "I must go north & see "Griselda." The Jenk is hard at work at it; & if he had but a Marquis, he would be perfectly happy." The published letter is in "The Selected Letters of W. E. Henley" edited by Damian Atkinson. Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000, pp. 98-105.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Asking if he will come to the dress rehearsal of her play; saying "I can not say to you how much you will help me if you can. I am pretty happy - Not quite - but I keep a brave face - Don't say to any one that I have asked you to come - but do come if you can soon! And write me a few lines of such encouragement as you can - My Manager is as much as it may be a little difficult - & I have no Marquis!!! / Love to your wife - / Will she come?"
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