BC RF/103/1/13: Letter from Farmfield, 25 November [1847?]

BC RF/103/1/13: Letter from Farmfield, 25 November [1847?]

Letter from Farmfield reporting that she and her mother are undecided about where to live [after her father's death]. They have been visiting the Lake District, and called on Miss [Harriet] Martineau, where the conversation was 'entirely mesmeric'. EAB declares herself unable to believe in clairvoyance. She asks whether EJR has heard of 'the new agent which has been employed for suspending sensation [chloroform]' She recommends George Sand's 'Consuelo', although 'the wildest book, & a good deal of it I dislike'. [Ralph Waldo] Emerson has been lecturing [in Liverpool], and EAB also recommends him: 'very striking, both in appearance, & in matter, but the American manner is so strong as to be very disagreeable'. All classes are suffering from the 'bad times'.

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

25 November [1847?]

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