BIB_ID
447990
Accession number
MA 14549.65
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Newbury, England, 1881 October 23
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written on embossed letterhead stationery from Highclere Castle, Newbury.
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 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
Evidently sending her his good wishes for her birthday: "This is to say good morning for me tomorrow (& for me it was a good day when you were born)"; wishing he could be at home, and remarking that his current visit is not one of those "poor, empty, & wasteful" ones.
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