BIB_ID
450187
Accession number
MA 14549.108
Creator
Greenwood, Frederick, 1830-1909, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1886 August 2
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Dated "Monday".
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 of "August 3 1886" and other marks and annotations inscribed in pencil by former owner J.W. Robertson Scott; August 3 fell on a Tuesday in 1886, and Scott's date is presumably derived from a postmarked envelope which no longer accompanies Greenwood's letter.
Provenance
Purchased from the estate of J.W. Robertson Scott; bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing his daughter that he has written Mr. Kinnear concerning his upcoming travel plans; mentioning that (her brother) Edgar will soon send her (Robert Louis Stevenson's new book, "Kidnapped", which "you will find good; & no doubt the Kinnear will enjoy it, too."
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