BIB_ID
439746
Accession number
MA 14345.57
Creator
Holland, Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Lady, 1770-1845, sender.
Display Date
London, England, undated
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Signed "EV Holland"; body of the letter written in a different, unidentified hand.
Written from "Stanhope Street"; dated "4 August."
Written from "Stanhope Street"; dated "4 August."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing to thank her for sending her a book and explaining that she has been ill; thanking her for her "gift of Napoleon", but explaining that she already has "many memorials of him" and suggesting that the gift might be "better bestowed on some other who is an equal admirer of him".
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