BIB_ID
447983
Accession number
MA 14549.57
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
London, 1881 May?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written on stationery watermarked "1880".
Dated "Friday", and inscribed with a suggested date of "May 14, 1881" by former owner; however, it should be noted that May 14th fell on a Saturday of that year.
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 "Friday", and inscribed with a suggested date of "May 14, 1881" by former owner; however, it should be noted that May 14th fell on a Saturday of that year.
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 and annotations by former owner in pencil.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Confirming that he has sent a check to (her sister) Jessie, mentioning Miss Grey and her wish to appoint an executor who is (he believes) under age, commenting on the death of Bessie Hannay's infant son, complaining about an "awful evening" at 24 Eaton Terrace, and going on the mention dining with Mr. Watts "to meet Mr. Woolner and Colonel Montcrieff", and plans to dine at the Lathbury's that evening "to talk of the proposed new paper [i.e. the Pilot]"; stating that he declined a request by Mrs. Stanley to meet Sir S. Northcote, assuring her Banjo and the birds are all right, and mentioning that he "went to see Othello again on Monday: Irving a much better Moor than Booth: Booth's Iago not so good as Irvings."
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