BIB_ID
447984
Accession number
MA 14549.59
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1881 May 23
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 "Monday", 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.
Dated "Monday", 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.
Inscriptions/Markings
With marks and annotations by former owner in pencil.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of J.W. Robertson Scott; bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Assuring her that he is well and expressing his hope that she, Jessie, and "the boy" (i.e. Edgar Greenwood) "are happy and comfortable", writing that the Oppenheims invited him to dine and meet Lord Harrington and the Duchess of Manchester, but he declined in favor of "the downs & the gorse, & the cowslips"; referring to (Henry Yates) Thompson's defeat ("a disgraceful beating") in his bid for Parliament, noting that there is a "great change in the feeling of the people in the north as to free trade" and "a growing cry for retaliation on those countries (& they comprise half the world at least) wh. are shutting out our goods by heavy tariffs"; observing that the Conservatives already have reason to regret having made Lord Salisbury their leader, and that "he can't open his mouth ... without an instant cry of 'violent Toryism', 'opposition to the will of the people' and so forth"; assuring her that the "blaze" on her cheeks will "tone down" and that Jessie's freckles will disappear.
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