BIB_ID
447054
Accession number
MA 14549.18
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Pickering, England, 1876 August 9
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Dated "8 Wednesday"; date of writing provideded 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
Expressing his shock at learning in her last letter that "poor Miss Shildrick must soon die"; writng that they must do what they can for "poor Miss Lucy", and adding "She should make arrangements to go off somewhere as soon as she can" and his daughter what she thinks of asking her (i.e. Lucy) to go with them; mentioning that he spent yesterday on the moors and that he "intends to spend today & tomorrow in the same way"; noting that he has heard nothing from "Mr. Lathbury" and wondering about taking lodgings in Guernsey.
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