BIB_ID
448223
Accession number
MA 14549.72
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Castleton, England, 1882 September 24
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Dated "Sunday"; 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.
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
Enclosing a check, advising her not to bother about looking a servant to take Eliza's place as "it is a very troublesome business generally", commenting on "Poor Mrs. Whitmore" and her poor health, remarking that he drove 12 miles yesterday through "bleak uninteresting country ... scarred with mine heaps & scored with stone walls", but that "this place" (i.e. Castleton) "seems very pleasant indeed".
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