BIB_ID
441153
Accession number
MA 14350.1
Creator
Howitt, Anna Mary, 1824-1884, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1845?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 25.2 x 20.0 cm
Notes
Mary Howitt's "My Uncle, The Clock-Maker" was published in 1845.
Forms part of a collection of letters written by Anna Mary Howitt to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891); see MA 14350.
Forms part of a collection of letters written by Anna Mary Howitt to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891); see MA 14350.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Describing how she feels a strong desire for a few more "last words" after parting ways; writing that her memory "always clings to me, and every now and then I wake up from my painting with a consciousness of some joyful experience just past"; wishing to chat with her a bit more; describing how her father was happy to hear that Barbara's aunt enjoyed "The Clock-Maker"; noting that her father is, in many ways, like a woman, and that he is misunderstood because he can appear to be "hot and violent"; expressing her love for her parents and her fear of their deaths; describing how Maggie and Charlton have returned, and seem well and happy; sending love to Barbara's sisters and Miss Spooner.
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