Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879, Letter to Charles Robert Leslie, circa 1840
- Call Number:
- MSS 15
- Creator:
- Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
- Title(s):
- Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
- Date:
- circa 1840
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series III: Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- 1, folder 14
- 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 home to report various woes, among them poor weather and bad food. She remarks that a family called the Fosters are "just passed," having left Harriet and the children "strangers in a strange land." Mention of the Fosters in another letter addressed from Sandgate, Kent, suggests that this letter also comes from the same place and dates from the same time. Harriet acknowledges that she complains a lot, but notes that the place where she is staying is more expensive and of poorer quality than London. She reports on buying Bradford some rubber boots and asks for a piece of sewing work to be sent to her. She complains again about the rain and then requests her husband to call on a "Mr Gray" to tell him of her disappointment with a dress that he has made for her. She relays some orders for the servant, Susan, and asks Leslie not to send more potted meats. Letter is dated "Thursday" only.
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 18.5 x 23 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:
- DanceMilitary uniformsPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPanoramas
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859Leslie, 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/1252
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1252?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1