BIB_ID
447437
Accession number
MA 14549.46
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Pickering, England, 1880? August 11
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Dated "Wednesday"; Date of writing suggested 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
Writing that he has just "got rid of the worst fit of 'depression' that I think I ever suffered from"; remarking that "as for holidays, Parliament is going on for an infinite time" but that he will need to make plans for getting away; mentioning that he has received letters from his son (Edgar) and from his daughter Jessie; referring to household matters and pets, and the asking for news of Jessie's cold.
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