BIB_ID
447266
Accession number
MA 14549.31
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
London?, England, 1879 May 31
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery from the Pall Mall Gazette.
Dated "May 31"; year 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.
Dated "May 31"; year 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.
Inscriptions/Markings
With date and other marks and annotations inscribed in pencil by former owner J.W. Robertson Scott.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing that he has been "very unwell" but that this week he is feeling better, and that were he able to "lie by for a month or two," he would be able to go to (Sir Richard) Quain's, but "otherwise it is useless" for him to come there for a day or two; mentioning household matters, servants, the garden, minor purchases for herself and her sister Jessie, etc.; informing her that he dined at Oppenheim's "in very fine company" and noting that he was the only man present without a title; enclosing a note for £10 and mentioning "amusing" but "troubling" newspaper accounts of the Comedie Française in London.
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