Leslie, Mary, 1833-1907, Letter to Charles Robert Leslie, 1851 or 1852, June 9
- Call Number:
- MSS 15
- Creator:
- Leslie, Mary, 1833-1907
- Title(s):
- Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
- Date:
- 1851 or 1852, June 9
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series III: Correspondence
- Part of Collection:
- 1, folder 44
- 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:
- Mary writes while visiting Bradford in Chepstow, Wales. She reports that "Braddy" has taken her to "Beachley, where there is a long pier reaching out into the river..." She says that there is to be a flower show at "the castle" in the next week, and anticipates a visit to the show, when Bradford will "have a holyday." She writes of drawing flowers, amply supplied by "the Miss Phillips," and of sketching "Miss Kinbys garden." Mary writes of an odd parlor trick or prank played by a lady in the area who drew a baby's face on her hand and convinced a child that it was "a dead baby, and when the little girl took it, and found it moved, she was quite frightened and ran away, but when she found it was only a hand, she wanted to make one...and went upstairs to frighten the nurse." Mary illustrates the letter with a charming watercolor vignette of a red squirrel by the side of a pond, saying that she and Bradford saw a similar scene on their way home.
- Physical Description:
- 4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 18 x 23 cm. Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and brown/black ink with watercolor illustration.
- 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, Mary, 1833-1907
- Finding Aid Title:
- Charles Robert Leslie Collection
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1283
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1283?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1