BIB_ID
432721
Accession number
MA 14300.88
Creator
Caldwell, Henrietta, 1784-1869, sender.
Display Date
England, 1853 November 26.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.2 x 12.7 cm
Notes
Signed "H.C.".
Written from "2 Paragon Buildings".
Possible year of writing suggested by internal evidence; Henrietta Caldwell's sister, Anne Dunbar, died in 1853; the Caldwell family took steps to have the body of her brother, William Caldwell, moved and reintered under a new monument in 1853-1854.
Written from "2 Paragon Buildings".
Possible year of writing suggested by internal evidence; Henrietta Caldwell's sister, Anne Dunbar, died in 1853; the Caldwell family took steps to have the body of her brother, William Caldwell, moved and reintered under a new monument in 1853-1854.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Expressing her alarm at her sister's (Anne Dunbar) last letter, "written with such evident difficulty", asking Blaze de Bury to write to her and give her an account of her sister's condition, and begging her to write to William and "tell him what form he is to execute which is to authorize the opening of my Brother's grave"; wondering what the nature of sister's recent illness might be and expressing her bewilderment at her sister stating in a letter that her collapse was owing to being "left without nourishment too long".
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