BIB_ID
447043
Accession number
MA 14549.10
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1873 June 28?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Dated "Sat. June 28"; year of writing identified as "1873" 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 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
Sending two checks, noting that "the boy" (i.e. his son Edgar) "seems to be losing his cough" and that he begins to think that he may have had "a small attack of hooping cough"; expressing pleasure at learning that she seen and liked Mr. and Mrs. Holt; remarking that he is getting better and that he has much to make him content in his children; mentioning that he is going to "the Prince of Wales's garden party: the Queen is to be there", and that he has been compelled to buy a new coat for the occasion; discussing the garden and routine matters.
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