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Call Number:
MSS 15
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799–1879
Title(s):
Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
Date:
1844 September 2
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 16
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

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:
Letter is postmarked from Ryde, in the Isle of Wight. Harriet is concerned that Leslie is being made ill by his paint, and advises that Robert can take Bradford's bed from their room. She frets about Leslie's health, worrying about him being left alone. She asks for Robert to bring her "Machine as I have not quite recovered my sea sickness. I am so giddy & assure you I <emph render="underline">have not drunk any</emph> beer, it is not good enough." She passes on a criticism of Susan, a servant, for forgetting an item in a parcel for Harriet. She bemoans George and Bradford's new friendship with an "idle" boy in town, asking Leslie to write them of his great expectations for them and to require them to write "an abridgment of each separate life as they read it..." She comments on some porcelain brush handles that Leslie seems to be ready to purchase, hopes that Susan will manage the apples on the tree at home, and also hopes that Leslie will enjoy an upcoming trip after remembering to "wrap up the old Plates" in advance of some home improvement to be done.
Physical Description:
3 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 23 x 38 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
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/8.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1254
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1254?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1