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Call Number:
MSS 15
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799–1879
Title(s):
Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
Date:
probably 1840s
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 35
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:
Harriet acknowledges receipt of Leslie's recent letter and "the Punch with your Sir Roger in it..." referring to a print of his painting, "Sir Roger De Coverley Going to Church." She comments on the sermon preached at church earlier in the day. She remarks that "none but a man impressed with the transitoryness [sic] of this life could have preach [sic] such a sermon..." Rather humorously, she notes that, given the potentially fatal heart complaint she knows the preacher to have, "all Parsons ought to have heart complaints" that they might preach as effectively. She closes with affectionate messages for their sons, "dear Buck and Rob," and a couple of other comments.
Physical Description:
4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 18.5 x 22 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/1273
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1273?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1