Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799–1879, Letter to Charles Robert Leslie, probably 1850, "Sunday October 9th"
- 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:
- probably 1850, "Sunday October 9th"
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series III: Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- 1, folder 41
- 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:
- Letter is addressed to Leslie at the Hotel des Tuileries in Paris. Harriet reports that a Mr. and Mrs. Redgrave have just arrived and told her that someone (perhaps their son) was married and had just arrived from Paris with his new wife, "a Miss Wright." She jokes, cryptically, that it's "better late [than never]." Harriet comments that Caroline's health is improving and that she misses her husband, who seems to be traveling with their daughter, Mary. Harriet issues various instructions, including some on Leslie's washing (she suggests that he not wash too much) and that he have Polly, a servant, look after him. She tells him strongly not to go to Beales again, and writes that Bradford can come to get Mary at Folkestone. Harriet bemoans the fact that "taste is flown the land" as "Hazlewood has yellowed all the windows in the Church, all mustard, a November fog." She tells Charles to pack up his own things and to have Mary remember to take her best things and look after her father's belongings.
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 20 x 25 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/1279
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1279?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1