BIB_ID
442155
Accession number
MA 4500
Creator
Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1873?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday 29th".
Possible year of writing based on proximity to previous letter in collection, as well as Easton Square address.
Written from "56 Easton Square - N.W."
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Most likely referring to the death of Barbara's sister, Isabella Leigh-Smith, who died in 1873.
Possible year of writing based on proximity to previous letter in collection, as well as Easton Square address.
Written from "56 Easton Square - N.W."
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Most likely referring to the death of Barbara's sister, Isabella Leigh-Smith, who died in 1873.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Offering love and sympathy after hearing the news of Barbara's bereavement following her sister's death; sharing that she remembers her, and can in some degree conceive of the sorrow and grief that those who lost her must be feeling; sending her mother's sympathy as well.
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