BIB_ID
447980
Accession number
MA 14549.54
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Surrey, England, 1881 April 21?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written on stationery watermarked "1880".
Dated "Thursday"; Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, died on April 19, 1881.
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 "Thursday"; Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, died on April 19, 1881.
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
Remarking that that her news about the weather and gardens is cheering, observing that the weather has been good where he is, writing that he has walked to Holmwood and Oakley on Monday, but that he was kept in London until 4 o'clock on Tuesday and 3 o'clock on the day before; informing her that he was invited to Hughenden "on the day Lord Beaconsfield was buried, but I could not go; & am very sorry for it"; hoping that Jessy is not worrying too much about her writing, remarking that he is to dine with "Mr. Pender" that night, and that "at the festival of last year it was that I met Mr. Gladstone you may remember."
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