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Call Number:
MSS 15
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Leslie, Mary, 1833–1907
Title(s):
Letter to Harriet Stone Leslie
Date:
probably 1851 or 1852
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 49
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:
A watercolor illustration remains on this fragment of a letter from Mary Leslie to her mother. The illustration shows a man dressed in a sort of 17th century military costume sitting high in a tree. The letter has been cut down so that only the fragment with the illustration remains. The handwriting that is visible and the style of letter seems similar to those found in Mary's letters home from Chepstow, in 1851-2.
Physical Description:
1 page (1 leaf) ; 6 x 11.2 cm. Fragment of an autograph letter, written in pen and brown/black ink and illustrated in watercolor.
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, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
Leslie, Mary, 1833-1907
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/1288
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1288?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1