BIB_ID
433132
Accession number
MA 14300.144
Creator
Du Quaire, Frances Mary, 1822-1895, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1854.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.4 x 13.4 cm
Notes
Letter fragment lacking address and signature; attribution is tentative and based on the speculative identification of a former owner.
Year of writing based on internal evidence; Thomas Emerson Headlam married Ellen Percival, eldest daughter of Thomas Van Straubenzee, on August 1, 1854.
Year of writing based on internal evidence; Thomas Emerson Headlam married Ellen Percival, eldest daughter of Thomas Van Straubenzee, on August 1, 1854.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Relating items of political news, gossip, and news of mutual acquaintances; including remarks about the government ("in home questions they are being beaten every night - Bob Lowe said to me t'other day 'we shall carry nothing but the University Bill & I don't think we shall carry that'- they threaten to dissolve parliament on the next defeat but I don't believe they wd. venture to do so."); mentioning Lord Ribblesdale, her friend Mr. (Thomas Emerson) Headlam, who she states, "is going to make a horrid marriage" with Miss Straubenzee, Mr. Beaumont, who has returned home "looking dreadfully ill", and "The old Morgan" who has recovered and is "as lively & vicious as ever"; remarking that she met Capt. Caldwell at a concert at Mrs. Clifton's.
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