BIB_ID
447053
Accession number
MA 14549.19
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Thirsk, England, 1876 August
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Dated "Saturday midday"; month, year, and place of writing provided 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
Mentioning a trip to Ripon, which he describes as "a charming pretty town", with "some exceedingly pretty scenery of the gentle kind about it"; writing that he went to Kilverton the day before, where he found "no very good scenery (too soft)" and noted that "the cottagers frequently grow fruit trees against the outer walls of their cottages", adding that "in four cases out of five these fruit trees are apricots", indicating that the climate cannot be "too rigorous"; going on to write that he was planning on going to Richmond but it has been prevented by the rain.
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