BIB_ID
436776
Accession number
MA 14300.218
Creator
Gordon, George Huntly, 1796-1868, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1853 June 17.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from the "Queen's Stationery Office."
Signed "Huntly"; the author of the letter is tentatively identified as George Huntly Gordon, the Scottish writer and civil servant who was employed as as Sir Walter Scott's amanuensis, and, afterwards, as a clerk in the clerk in the treasury and the government stationary office.
Signed "Huntly"; the author of the letter is tentatively identified as George Huntly Gordon, the Scottish writer and civil servant who was employed as as Sir Walter Scott's amanuensis, and, afterwards, as a clerk in the clerk in the treasury and the government stationary office.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Lamenting that it has been a year and a half since he has heard from her, and expressing his hope that she has not ceased communication with him on account of his wife's jealousy, which, he explains, was inspired by "one or two" of her letters which he showed his wife "never dreaming that she could see anything but friendship and gratitude in your expressions of regard - though withal a little warmer and more eloquent than English prudes may use!", informing her that his wife believes that communications have ceased between them, and suggesting that they recommence writing to one another at intervals of two or three months, "except when you have any business to transact here"; assuring her that no one else will see her letters to him, and wondering if there may not be love on his side and asking if there is not "something monstrous & unnatural in falling in love with a person one never saw?"; asking if she plans to come to London, when the Coronation will be, and what her opinion is of the Emperor and Empress; asking if she written anything of late and inquiring after Mrs. Dunbar; requesting that she write him via Monsr. de Bernardy, and asking if she has any news of "Madame Chamier."
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