BIB_ID
81302
Accession number
MA 1080.18
Creator
Austin, Mary Carlyle.
Display Date
1834 Apr. 28.
Credit line
Purchased, 1929.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 22.9 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Thomas Carlyle Esqr. / Craigenputtoch / Dumfries."
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Part of a large collection of letters to Thomas Carlyle. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 1080 for details.
With postmark and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Purchased from E.D. North, 1929.
Summary
Telling him that they have moved to Annan and "have had little time to try [it] yet but so far as it has gone [they] have no ill report of it"; remarking that James "has got a good deal of work considering him a stranger in the place"; noting that Jamie [their brother] came from Scotsbrig on Saturday and reported that everyone there was well; expressing her anxieties about their mother's health.
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