BIB_ID
80284
Accession number
MA 9051
Creator
Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison, 1825-1899.
Display Date
1867 December 22.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.4 cm
Notes
The place of writing is given as "78 Great King Street, Edinburgh."
The year of writing may be 1864; the last number is ambiguous.
On mourning stationery with an engraved crest (a raised hand surrounded the word "Confido").
A small section of the paper has been cut away below Boyd's signature.
From the Ford Collection.
The year of writing may be 1864; the last number is ambiguous.
On mourning stationery with an engraved crest (a raised hand surrounded the word "Confido").
A small section of the paper has been cut away below Boyd's signature.
From the Ford Collection.
Summary
Thanking his correspondent for their letter; confirming that he had made a reference in his work to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, though "I had no acquaintance with her: and know her merely through her books"; declining to assist his correspondent in a certain scheme; discussing the difficulties of writing for the press.
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