BIB_ID
432955
Accession number
MA 23084
Creator
Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, year unknown June 3.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17 x 11 cm
Notes
Addressed to "My good Henchman."
On stationery with a raised scalloped border and botanical watermarks.
Acquired with a collection of letters by important 19th-century woman writers, including Maria Edgeworth, Amelia Opie, L. E. L., and Harriet Martineau. Each item in the collection is cataloged separately.
On stationery with a raised scalloped border and botanical watermarks.
Acquired with a collection of letters by important 19th-century woman writers, including Maria Edgeworth, Amelia Opie, L. E. L., and Harriet Martineau. Each item in the collection is cataloged separately.
Provenance
Purchased at Bonhams, London, 27 March 2019, lot 202.
Summary
Mentioning a forthcoming review; promising to do all she can regarding the pension list but listing potential obstacles; writing "I always remember in my earliest days when I angrily said to the Minister - 'such a small thing to ask!' his sending me in a list of 76 names - with those marked which he was specially directed to consider"; saying that once the review is published she will tell her correspondent what about it worried her; explaining the untidiness of the letter in a postscript.
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