BIB_ID
439258
Accession number
MA 14345.134
Creator
Walpole, Spencer H. (Spencer Horatio), 1806-1898, sender.
Display Date
Wickmere, England, undated
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from "Wolterton" (the traditional residence of the Walpole family, located today in the civil parish of Wickmere in the English county of Norfolk, England).
Dated "Sunday".
Dated "Sunday".
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking her for sending him a book, remarking on the lack of current reading matter at Wolterton and promising to read her book "unblinded by my friendship"; remarking on his isolation in the north, complaining of the cold, and stating that he intends to "escape to the great city" as it is "the best place in this land of Cimmerian darkness."
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