BIB_ID
89906
Accession number
MA 8674.1
Creator
Goold, R. W. (Richard Wilshere), -1898, sender.
Display Date
Ramsgate, England, 1898 May 19.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.3 x 8.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "My dearest Daisy."
On stationery printed with his address, "10, Royal Crescent, Ramsgate."
The recipient of this letter, Florence Emily "Daisy" Goold Arbuthnot, married the American poet John Gould Fletcher in 1916.
Part of a collection of letters related to American poet John Gould Fletcher. Items in the collection have been described in individual records; see MA 8674.1-8 for details.
On stationery printed with his address, "10, Royal Crescent, Ramsgate."
The recipient of this letter, Florence Emily "Daisy" Goold Arbuthnot, married the American poet John Gould Fletcher in 1916.
Part of a collection of letters related to American poet John Gould Fletcher. Items in the collection have been described in individual records; see MA 8674.1-8 for details.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Thanking her for the letter she sent him on his birthday; noting that they have been having windy weather and he has had to "shut [him]self up in the house a great deal"; remarking that he has "had this house done up very nicely this year"; commenting on cases of influenza, typhoid fever, and diptheria; telling her that Mr. Ben Flint got typhoid fever from eating oysters so he has "quite made up [his] mind that ... oysters will not form a line on the menu."
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