BIB_ID
439273
Accession number
MA 14345.125
Creator
Taylor, Tom, 1817-1880, sender.
Display Date
London, England, approximately 1859 January 29
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 19 x 11.8 cm
Notes
Written on blue stationery with letterhead: "Local Government Act Office, / 8, Richmond Terrace, / Whitehall, S. W."
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence; the Scottish poet Isa Craig wrote the prize poem for the Burns Centenary in 1859.
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence; the Scottish poet Isa Craig wrote the prize poem for the Burns Centenary in 1859.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Attributing the lack of action regarding Gore's complaints about a cesspool to the incompetance of local authorities and advising her make a formal complaint; mentioning news of mutual acquaintances, and enclosing some lines from the "Burns Prize Poems", written by an author he refers to as "a really clever, industrious, & most[?] discerning young woman - plain & short & very Scotch, but with a first rate head on her shoulders", adding "Milnes tells that she was working as embroideress at a bably linen warehouse when she sent poems to the Scotsman ... she is now in London & is working as a clerk & Assistant Secretary to the Sociological Association & doing the real labour of abstracting & arranging stupid papers"; asking if she has seen the poem written by Mrs. (Caroline) Norton for the Burns Centenary, published in the Scotsman, and offering to send her a copy.
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