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Call Number:
MSS 53
Holdings:
[Request]
Creator:
Woolner, Thomas, 1825–1892
Title(s):
Thomas Woolner letter to Marian Lewis
Date:
1876 March 11
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Part of Collection:
Box 1, folder 20
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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 Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Scope and Content:
"March 11 '76. My dear Mrs Lewis, I am grieved at your sad news, and hope it is only a few days of depression you have to be anxious about. Tell him he must not think of writing unless doing so allows one to accept it as a sign of very great improvement indeed: - mind this is bona fide, and I cannot accede to any vagaries of his generous impulses. I do not at all like writing to my wife that he is worse for his last letter rejoiced her so much; and she gets so little holiday, having this refractory tribe always on her hands, I do not like to send down a cloud to shade her day of sunshine. - She gave in this morning's letter a fine account of the glorious sea and the waves washing over the roadway. The children are with me; so that she has nothing to do but laugh and grow fat. - Hoping for good news- Ever truly yours, T. Woolner."
Additional Notes:
With blind-embossed letterhead: 29, Welbeck Street. W.
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (3 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
Genre:
Correspondence and Exhibitions
Subject Terms:
Antiquities
Art
Orientalism
Painters
Painting
Photography
Prices
Sculptors
Sculpture
Associated Places:
Egypt
France
Great Britain
Hayes (Bromley, London, England)
Paris
Associated People/Groups:
Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876
Lewis, Marian, approximately 1826-1906
Woolner, Alice, 1845-1912
Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892
Finding Aid Title:
Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/10701.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629911
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629911?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1