Letters from Mary Llewelyn Davies to Margaret Llewelyn Davies: File 13, 1889
Scope and Contents
Includes: 7 May 1889 from Craven Terrace, London to Kirkby Lonsdale; 23 May 1889 from Glasgow - visited ‘Queen Margaret College - - head - - is a chum of Aunt E.D.’s - - I then went on to call at the Mir[r]lees who inhabit a fine house near the Coll.’; 9 letters June 1889, chiefly to various London addresses including the Shore Smiths - Whit Tuesday - ‘I hope Rosie’s paper & yr. speech both did well’, 13 June, while staying with ‘Harriet’, - ‘it is you & you only who can decide such a matter - - But then I believe matrimony was more in my line than it is in yours’, 16 June - ‘as far as I can judge you are acting rightly. It is a painful thing - - I am glad you had a talk with A. he wd. be so sympathetic - You will not be able to escape an interview; it would not be fair on him; for he has never yet had the opportunity of expressing himself’, 18 June - ‘I am sending up the little Hewitt cape by E.D. as you may be glad of it’, 19 June ‘I do feel for all you have been through, & for him too poor good man - - to give him sorrow is a great sorrow for you - - ‘ - ‘But yr. new position will I suppose keep you busy’ - ‘It was pathetic sending the poor little thing [E.D.] off into her solitude again - - she is very anxious to see you’ - ‘Whatever should I have done if you had left me - - so at any rate I am the happier’, 20 June - ‘I shall think of you at yr. Guild tonight - - It will be a great meeting I am sure’ - ‘Love to Rosie’, 30 June - ‘Emily writes pleased about her chair. Thank you. I hope it was a nice one. I am not at all easy about her.’; 2 and 4 July 1889 c/o of the Shore Smiths; 30 August 1889 to Kirkby Lonsdale; 4 letters September 1889 addressed to Kirkby Lonsdale - 5 September - ‘I hope Meta [Muir] has arrived safely - - I should like to know & love her as well as I do sweet Eva’, 27 September from Carlisle - ‘After Episcopal feeding for 2 days we shall need next to nothing’; 15 October from Kirkby Lonsdale, together with three other letters; 6 November 1889 addressed to 42 Albert Hall Mansions, London; 10 November 1889 to 42 Albert Hall Mansions - 'How busy & happy you must be. I - - don't think I grudge yr. absence the smallest particle', together with Kirkby Lonsdale Sunday evening; 13 November 1889 to 42 Albert Hall Mansions, together with Kirkby Lonsdale Friday; 19 November 1889 to 42 Albert Hall Mansions - 'We shall want to know all about the dwellings. But fancy the Amalgamated coming into actual sight! Well you can't wish me to be very enthusiastic at the idea of losing you for 1/2 the year! But - - it will be endurable - - We must as you say talk it over when you reappear in poor little K.L. - - Lilian H. seemed to think life in a Jubilee dwelling would be most desirable. She has considerable ambitions'; 22 November 1889 addressed to 15 Jubilee Dwellings, Tower Street, Waterloo Road, London SE - 'I am so wondering - - how Jubilee Build.gs seem on closer acquaintance', together with Sunday K.L. - 'We are so glad Jubilee is delightful. My love to Rosalind' and K.L. 24 November 1889 from 'Your loving Gertrude' [Jekyll? - mentions Boscobel - see also File 13] - 'I wonder how you will like being in such close quarters with the working people?'; 25 November 1889 addressed to Waterloo Road, London SE; 27 November 1889 addressed to 16F Jubilee Dwellings - 'Are you going off to Bolton for the 6th?'; 28 November 1889 to 16F Jubilee Dwellings - Margaret is apparently to attend a wedding at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire - 'Enjoy everything. Don't give all yr. sympathies to the working classes'; 29 November 1889 to Castle Howard - 'We wonder how Lady Stanley is - & who are the wedding guests. We see that Mr Jowett is to tie the knot, so I presume Mary will take the vow of obedience', together with 30 November 1889 - 'Are we to look for you on Monday?'; 13 December 1889 from Glasgow to London; 19 December 1889 from Glasgow to Kirkby Lonsdale - ‘I am glad to hear of yr. good meeting. Every day we pass the magnificent ‘wholesale’ here, & I feel inclined to go in & say I am the proud Mother of - - - & to enquire as to Propaganda’, also encloses an ‘In Memoriam’ poem.
Dates
- Creation: 1889
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 12:08:20+00:00
Repository Details
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