Browse Items (82 total)

  • Collection: Letters from Mary Clarke (Madame Julius Mohl)

BC RF/103/11/34a: Three envelopes [1860s]

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Three envelopes, one addressed to 'Miss Sturch and Mrs Reid', two to 'Miss Sturch or Mrs Reid' at 'York Terrace 21 Regent's Park'

BC RF/103/11/34: Letter asking EJR to put some questions to Lucy Aikin's family about [her memoirs], 19 February [1865]

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Letter asking EJR to put some questions to Lucy Aikin's family about [her memoirs]. MC wonders 'why are not Channing's answers published?' and feels there are too few letters to her friends and family. She praises Miss Aikin's style, compared to 'the…

BC RF/103/11/33: Letter describing how "Lucy Aikin" [Memoirs edited by Philip Hemery Le Breton?] has brought back memories of visiting Stoke Newington, 30 January [1865]

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Letter describing how "Lucy Aikin" [Memoirs edited by Philip Hemery Le Breton?] has brought back memories of visiting Stoke Newington when she was a child, to dine at Dr Aikin's and then to Mrs [Anna] Barbauld, when MC cried 'at the idea of being…

BC RF/103/11/32: Letter to EJR and Mary Sturch expressing her pleasure at good news of their health, 3 January [1865]

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Letter to EJR and Mary Sturch expressing her pleasure at good news of their health despite the very cold winter, and reporting that she is eagerly awaiting a copy of a book on Miss [Lucy] Aikin. She gives news of Pauline Irba, who has been travelling…

BC RF/103/11/31: Letter reporting that Miss [Lucy] Aikin's letters are being published in the "Athenaeum", 1 November 1864

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Letter reporting that Miss [Lucy] Aikin's letters are being published in the "Athenaeum": MC is reminded of 'my earliest days and Miss Benger'. She wants M. Mohl to buy it for the Institut [de France], and describes the Institut's book-buying…

BC RF/103/11/29: Letter from Ramsgate asking EJR to tell Miss Sowton that she (MC) has failed to find a French teacher, 24 February 1863

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Letter from Ramsgate asking EJR to tell Miss Sowton that she (MC) has failed to find a French teacher for Miss Sowton's school and warning her that a parcel containing a gold watch will be delivered.

BC RF/103/11/28: Letter explaining that she remained at Cold Overton until 5th September, 13 [September 1862?]

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Letter explaining that she remained at Cold Overton until 5th September, but 'could not consult the Dr there because I knew he would make me worse'. She reports that Mrs [Julie] Schwabe has gone to prison with Garibaldi and Louis Napoleon is setting…

BC RF/103/11/27: Letter [from Cold Overton Hall], 27 [August 1862?]

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Letter [from Cold Overton Hall] explaining that she is ill and is going home at the beginning of September. Ida [von Schmidt-Zabierow, her niece]'s little boy was seized with typhus on the 15th. She complains that the King of Prussia is doing 'every…

BC RF/103/11/26: Letter expressing astonishment that EJR has accused her of 'varieties' in her conduct, [Autumn? 1861]

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Letter expressing astonishment that EJR has accused her of 'varieties' in her conduct. She admits that she has been more intimate with Miss Sturch than with EJR of recent years: 'my affection for you never varied but you did not want me, you were…