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Letter from Celia Thaxter, Liverpool, to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Field, 1881 February 1-2 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
447621
Accession number
MA 23856.3
Creator
Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894, sender.
Display Date
Liverpool (England), 1881 February 1-2
Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.6 x 13.1 cm (folded)
Notes
Addressed "Dear 2 kind friends".
Provenance
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cremin, 1982.
Summary
Writing for the first time since her "little scrap at Nice (MA 23856.2)" in a "dark & dim hotel in Liverpool" before crossing the Atlantic; continuing to write on February 2nd because her brother, Oscar Laighton, visited; expressing concern about sailing during a storm; relating a meeting with Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Robert Browning; describing Ritchie and recent travel and weather; giving her Boston address; in a postscript relating Laighton's "wish... to be most kindly remembered".