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Call Number:
MSS 15
Creator:
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
Title(s):
Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
Date:
1836 August 10
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 10
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Harriet writes from Bromyard, Herefordshire, saying that she misses her family and fears being forgotten by "the little ones," but that a trip to the seaside (whence she writes) will "patch me quite up for the whole winter..." She inquires after the children at home (it seems that Robert is with her) and sends instructions for their care. She writes repetitively of coming home and sets a date for her return. Harriet comments on being in Malvern, saying that she went to the library and scanned the visitors' list but did not see a Miss Wilkie or Lady Laurie. Harriet closes but then adds an odd postscript about her dislike for widows who remarry and closes again with some instructions for their daughter, Harriet.
Physical Description:
4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 23.4 x 38 cm. Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and blue ink.
Genre:
Correspondence , Pictorial works, Albums (Books), Autobiographies, Cut-paper works, Graphite drawings, Pen and ink drawings, Letters, Sketchbooks, and Watercolors (paintings)
Subject Terms:
Dance
Military uniforms
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
Panoramas
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
Finding Aid Title:
Charles Robert Leslie Collection
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/8.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1248
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1248?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1