BIB_ID
447035
Accession number
MA 14549.5
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
England? 1873 May 19
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday, May 19"; year of writing supplied in pencil by former owner.
Forms part of a collection of letters by English journalist, author, and editor, Frederick Greenwood (1830-1909), and other members of the Greenwood family.
Forms part of a collection of letters by English journalist, author, and editor, Frederick Greenwood (1830-1909), and other members of the Greenwood family.
Inscriptions/Markings
With date and other marks and annotations inscribed in pencil by former owner J.W. Robertson Scott.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of J.W. Robertson Scott; bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing that he his condition is improving and that he is feeling "better & brighter"; noting that that "the boy" was with him on Saturday and that "that cough sticks to him, but he seems better" and writing that "Miss Grey[?]" took him to the opera, which "seems to have liked"; stating that he intended to visit Lady Waldegrave, but "Mr. de Crespigny came in for a gossip and that settled me in the little room for the evening"; mentioning Mrs. Stanley who came up with "her dear Johnny to see the chestnuts"; writing that he will be going to the Drummonds tomorrow, after having been asked repeatedly; stating that he will go the following week to Lady Portsmouth; briefly describing the state of the garden; mentioning "the Roman" and asking which of them is in love with him most; telling her she must make a few excursions when "money seems wanted" and the weather is good; with a note at the end reading "The kitten grows pretty & funny." With a note by the recipient in the upper left hand corner of the first page: My father seems to be getting better, but slowly: he has been very ill.
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