BIB_ID
431204
Accession number
MA 1617.218
Creator
Jenkin, Anne Austin, -1921.
Display Date
Morven, Scotland, 1882? August 2.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 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 "Glenmorven, / Morven. N.B." on stationery engraved with the address.
Written from "Glenmorven, / Morven. N.B." on stationery engraved with the address.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying she hopes very much he will come to Glenmorven; discussing the joys of yachting saying "Yachting is the best thing in his world except acting a big part - It is delicious - It is the wildest vagabondage based on cleanliness - [illegible] & first rate tea & coffee - It makes you forget the past - be incapable of a future & prisons you in a perfect lazy yet vivid & changeful present - It feels frightfully dangerous - & yet in your judgment you know it is very safe - It combines perfect novelty with all one's dearest oldest associations...And then sleeping on board - so still - & [illegible] until lap lap - like a cradle-song - & rousing up at 5 to hear them holy-stoning the deck. Now - don't you see that you must come? I should be dismally sad if I believed you would not - & today I can't be sad - I am all alone - & if I began I might not leave off;" adding that her husband is "storm-stayed at Oban with Captain Jenkin" and the boys are "storm-stayed" in Tobermory.
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