BIB_ID
447215
Accession number
MA 14549.27
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Thirsk, England, 1878 August?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Dated "Tuesday"; month, year, and place of writing suggested by former owner; the fact that August 3 fell on a Saturday of that year, however, suggests that this date may be mistaken.
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 a trip to Richmond which he describes at some length as a "wretched town" and commenting that "it is quite irritating to breathe in so grey, dull, squalid a town so beautifully pitched."
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