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Letter from Jessy Greenwood, Coleshill, Vale of White Horse, to Kate Greenwood, 1881 October 17 : autograph manuscript sign.

BIB_ID
455572
Accession number
MA 14549.206
Creator
Greenwood, Jessy E., sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Written from: Coleshill House.
Forms part of a collection of letters by English journalist, author, and editor, Frederick Greenwood (1830-1909), and other members of the Greenwood family.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Inquiring after her cold, complaining of the recent "horrible weather", noting that (their brother) Edgar has left suddenly for Oxford, and remarking on the changed appearance of "Alice" the school mistress; describing a long walk she took yesterday ("climbed over twenty stiles"), describing Thirsk as "a dirty little town", and writing that they are going to Holywell today.