Letters from Mary Llewelyn Davies to Margaret Llewelyn Davies: File 14, 1890
Scope and Contents
Includes: 2 letters of January and 2 of February 1890 from 53 Warrington Crescent, Paddington to Kirkby Lonsdale, including 29 January ‘You - - sound very busy. Don’t let little man [one of Margaret’s brothers] overdo it.’, and 10 February - ‘this nice quiet time for yr. prep. must have been a boon - - I shall be anxious, & glad for you when the addresses are done. Only yr. future life looks rather like a perpetual address! - - If any one wants to get you for a visit I know what bait they must put on their hook! - Coop’, also encloses a letter from R[osalind] Shore Smith to Mrs Ll. D. 9 February 1890; 19 May 1890 from S. Kensington to Waterloo Road, London SE, also containing 4 other letters, 3 being from various of Margaret’s brothers - T[heo] to ‘Dearest Mother’ from Cambridge, 18 May, mentions going to ‘the great Oscar Browning’s there to meet Margaret’s friend Augustine Birrell who was down here last night delivering a witty harmless address to the Liberal Club’ - ‘please thank Maggie for her revised paper - - I hope she will be tolerably well on the great day’; 7 letters September 1890 from Kirkby Lonsdale to various London addresses, including 7 September - ‘Much love to Rosie & yr kind hostess’, 10 September - ‘we do all want to hear about the wedding. You must have been a good gathering of best Girton friends - - I am sure Meta looked a lovely bride’, 14 September - ‘I wonder - - how the day at Rugby went off. Did - - all the members of the Com.mee duly turn up?’, also discusses broken engagement of Margaret’s brother Maurice, 17 September - also contains 12 October 1890 - ‘I was charmed to hear of the successful conference - - It seemed a very large number of women to get together to confer’ - ‘wh. rooms for Dolly & Gwen?’, and 30 September - thanks Margaret for her ‘nice long letter in all the hustle & excitement of yr. Burnley time - - It must have been awful presiding in that great Hall’ - ‘I am glad you went to P.P. & wore the pink - - You did not, I gather, get K. for a talk alone. She is really interested & wd. not disapprove at all’.
Dates
- Creation: 1890
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 12:08:28+00:00
Repository Details
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