BIB_ID
433267
Accession number
MA 14300.175
Creator
Elgin, Mary Louisa Bruce, Countess of, 1819-1898, sender.
Display Date
Dunfermline, Scotland, 1859 October 12.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.7 x 10.4 cm
Notes
Written from "Broomhall / Dunfermline".
Written on blue stationery.
Thanking her for her "exertions" on her behalf (to assist her in obtaining a servant), saying that she is quite willing to "try Natalie, provided some good physician sanctions it with confidence" and suggesting that Charlotte Locker would be willing to give her opinion of her; writing that Lord Elgin "takes a rather desponding view of things in general" and that "the China disaster is a specially painful personal blow, making it unlikely that the truth of his policy out there will ever now be understood or recognized - this is very hard to bear."
Written on blue stationery.
Thanking her for her "exertions" on her behalf (to assist her in obtaining a servant), saying that she is quite willing to "try Natalie, provided some good physician sanctions it with confidence" and suggesting that Charlotte Locker would be willing to give her opinion of her; writing that Lord Elgin "takes a rather desponding view of things in general" and that "the China disaster is a specially painful personal blow, making it unlikely that the truth of his policy out there will ever now be understood or recognized - this is very hard to bear."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Extending an invitation to breakfast.
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