BIB_ID
447219
Accession number
MA 14549.20
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Pickering, England, 1876
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Signed "Your affectionate Dad".
Dated: Pickering / Saturday.
Year of writing derived from internal evidence: both the Charles Bravo murder case and the publication of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda occured in 1876.
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: Pickering / Saturday.
Year of writing derived from internal evidence: both the Charles Bravo murder case and the publication of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda occured in 1876.
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 marks in pencil by former owner.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of J.W. Robertson Scott; bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Mentioning his daughter taking "Lucy" to the Crystal Palace and expressing his sympathy for "that poor little maid"; commenting on the (Charles) Bravo case, "I don't believe that Mr. Bravo knew as much as those women say he did. It is not at all probable that he would have married Mr. Bravo had he known ... of course it is their business to make out now that he did know to account for the suicide"; referring to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and stating that he likes it "still less this month, though there is more go in it. How strained & false all that is about mother & son!"
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