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Call Number:
MSS 15
Creator:
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
Title(s):
Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
Date:
1838 December 14
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 11
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 a brief letter to her husband, reporting that Mr. and Mrs. Brown have just left, and that a Mr. Humphrey "has been all sufficient to Miss Bacon..." She reports further that "Mr. Brown says his Excellency the American Minister Mr. Stephenson & his Lady are to pay a visit to the Castle..." Letter is addressed to Leslie first at the Castle Hotel in Windsor, but this is crossed out, along with an address to Leslie at the Royal Academy. Ultimately, the letter was sent to Leslie at home, at 12 Pine Apple Place in Edgware, London.
Physical Description:
1 page (1 folded leaf) ; 22.5 x 37 cm. Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and brown/black 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
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1249
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1249?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1