BIB_ID
80451
Accession number
MA 8797
Creator
Anderson, Wilhelmina Harriet, 1828-1899.
Display Date
[1874-1899?] Mar. 16.
Credit line
Purchase, 1970.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Formerly catalogued as MA 4446.
The year of writing is not provided however the letter refers to General Grayson's memoir which was published in 1874 and W.H. Anderson died in 1899.
Written from "17 The Avenue / Southampton."
The year of writing is not provided however the letter refers to General Grayson's memoir which was published in 1874 and W.H. Anderson died in 1899.
Written from "17 The Avenue / Southampton."
Provenance
Purchased from Joan Enders of Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1970 as part of a collection of letters from Baron Mount-Temple to various recipients.
Summary
Thanking her for the flowers and saying that the "...one reason I have flowers is they always remind me of the resurrection & death into life;" discussing several books and recommending "General [Alfred Wilks] Draysons 20 years at the R.M.A." [Royal Military Academy at Woolwich] for Lord Mount Temple; sending a "bit of Fern" from Africa but adding that African gardeners do not consider it a fern and call it "Asparagus Plumosa."
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