BIB_ID
448979
Accession number
MA 14549.87
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
Bakewell, England, 1883 September 20?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18 x 11.1 cm
Notes
Dated "Thursday"; place of writing suggested by related correspondence.
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
Writing that he has been hoping to get a letter from her "to tell me how you are going on", that he has no news except that the weather has not been good and that he does not "get about" as much as he wishes; adding that his eye bothers him more than he expected and that he will be back on Monday, mentioning that he sent his linen to be washed, asking her to send him a "day shirt & a collar" and suggesting that she might like to come down again on Saturday and bring what he wants with her.
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