BIB_ID
447056
Accession number
MA 14549.6
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1873? May 24
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written on light blue stationery embossed with the writer's monogram.
Dated "Saturday"; date 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.
Dated "Saturday"; date 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.
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 is distressed to hear that she has a cold; mentioning social engagements with the Derby's and Francis Drummond; noting that he went to the opera and saw [Adelina] Patti perform in the "Barber of Seville" and describing her as "quite wonderful & in my belief never to be surpassed"; complaining that he slept poorly afterwards; briefly mentioning various friends and acquaintances.
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