BC RF/103/1/51: Letter from Tunbridge Wells, 2 September [1859]

BC RF/103/1/51: Letter from Tunbridge Wells, 2 September [1859]

Letter from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, reporting that 'Mother imagines the air of Tunbridge Wells is too bracing for her'. Her brother Ashton [J.A. Bostock] has been appointed Hon. Surgeon to the Queen. 'Dear old Mr [Philip] Le Breton' and his daughter are also in Tunbridge Wells. He is worried because the roof of the College was not finished before a recent thunderstorm. He says he cannot read novels: 'they excite him too much'. [Henry] Crabb Robinson got him to read 'Adam Bede', which made him cry. EAB has J.S Mill's "Dissertations": 'he is as clear a thinker as Miss C. [Frances Power Cobbe]'

Elizabeth Anne [Eliza] Bostock

The Elizabeth Jesser Reid Papers are part of the Bedford College archive held at Royal Holloway, University of London Archives

Royal Holloway, University of London

2 September [1859]

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