Letters from Mary Llewelyn Davies to Margaret Llewelyn Davies: File 8, 1883-01 - 1883-07
Scope and Contents
Margaret’s sixth and seventh terms at Girton. Includes: 20 January 1883 - ‘Aunt Emily came yesterday - - She enjoyed the acting last night’ - ‘Kind Aunt E. read me some Cranford’; 24 January 1883 enclosing three other letters, including letters home from Crompton and Maurice from Marlborough College, 21 January 1883; 3 February 1883, enclosing a letter from ?E[mily]B[utler] to Mary Llewelyn Davies, 31 January 1883; 8 February 1883 - ‘I am sorry for your feeling so discouraged over your work - - It is a pity all the teachers are not like good Mr Seeley - - ‘ - 'We were very interested to hear of your Newnham visit, & talk with Miss G.O.M. - - What a wonderful lady for languages you describe!’ - ‘You have Aunt E. D. with you now. I hope she is enjoying herself at her loved Girton. There is a very good paragraph about G. in the Pall Mall [Gazette] tonight. I wish it may produce money’; 13 February 1883, concerning the illness and death of G[eorgina] I[sabella] B[utler], enclosing a letter to ‘dear Carry’ from Emily Butler with a memorial sheet for Georgina Butler 1838-83; 1 March 1883, from St Leonards, where Mary appears to be convalescing - ‘So you were almost too triumphant over poor Newnham. It is better fun when the battle is more equal’ - ‘Glad shall I be to see you back again to help me’, also mentions visiting Grandmother Davies; 'Dearest Arthur' from Mother, from 5 Blandford Square - 'We were all sorry to leave St Leonards' [probably spring 1883]; 17 April 1883 ‘I find myself often making schemes as to what we shall be doing when you leave us no more. It is a comf. feeling to me - - ‘; 23 April 1883, refers to Margaret making a visit home; 28 April 1883; 3 May 1883 - ‘Papa met Mrs S. L. - - the other day, & she mentioned that there were complaints about the food at Girton, & that Miss Nightingale was uneasy about it. Papa repeated this to Aunt E. D. wh. I fear must have given her pain. She asked me if you had complained’; 5 May 1883 - ‘I hope all your hard work is not overdoing you’; 13 May 1883; undated but probably belonging to this sequence - ‘I can’t bear the idea of you being so overdone with work - - I think you must make up your mind not to be very successful in the exam. & try to think it is not of vital importance’; 19 May 1883, mentions that ‘Miss Toynbee is pathetically eager to carry on any of her brother’s work that she can - - an afternoon room for recreation on Sundays, where she hopes to attract people with microscopes, recitations, sacred music etc’; 25 May 1883 - ‘I hope you don’t feel too sorry to be leaving, I shall always know you have done it partly for me; & I could really have got along very well for another year’; 11 June 1883 ‘I know your heart will be heavy to say goodbye - - ‘ - ‘no doubt there is some purpose in my incapacity’ - ‘you will be my comfort & right hand’; 20 July 1883 c/o Rev G Bell, The Lodge, Marlborough.
Dates
- Creation: 1883-01 - 1883-07
Creator
- From the Fonds: Davies, Mary Llewelyn (nee Crompton, 1834-1895) (Person)
Extent
1 file(s) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Originator(s)
Llewelyn Davies, Mary
Finding aid date
2010-08-06 12:07:33+00:00
Repository Details
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