Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799–1879, Letter to Charles Robert Leslie, 1846 September 14
- Call Number:
- MSS 15
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799–1879
- Title(s):
- Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
- Date:
- 1846 September 14
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series III: Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- 1, folder 18
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe 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 to C.R. Leslie while away from home, probably on a seaside holiday with the children. She comments that she has written him recently and mentioned a house to let that has been taken in the meantime. She says that there "is not a lodging, or house to let in this place..." She mentions that "Mary and H. bathe every day..." and comments that someone called "Sam" left town for London, suffering with a stomach ache that only improved with a "table spoonful" of "Daffy's Elixir," a popular cure-all of the era. Harriet remarks that she has expressed her feelings on "the engraver, I hope you will hold up your head, till I return, & then I will hold it up for you..." It seems that there is some kind of financial dispute afoot. Harriet also writes of the children's artistic education, hoping that Robert can attend drawing school in the evening and that Mary will get some much-needed "tuition." Harriet comments on having to alter dresses made recently by a local dressmaker, advising Leslie sharply not to mention the problem to the dressmaker but to have their daughter Caroline pay close attention to the fitting of her own dress. Harriet closes with a postscript asking for Caroline to send some cayenne pepper and hoping that she will eat oatmeal porridge for tea.
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 18 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/1256
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1256?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1