BIB_ID
447049
Accession number
MA 14549.14
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
England, 1875 August 7
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 page) ; 12.8 x 10.2 cm
Notes
Dated "7th Saturday"; date of writing inscribed as "Aug. 7, 1875" 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
Concerning household matters, payment of the rent, and the health of various family members; advising her on writing a review for an (unidentified) novel, and stating "You should just make a paragraph of the novel if it is stupid, you can point out its stupidity. Now that you have had the trouble of reading the book you may as well earn half a guinea by saying what ought to be said about it."
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