BC RF/103/1/15: Letter from Llandudno, [1852?]

BC RF/103/1/15: Letter from Llandudno, [1852?]

Letter from Llandudno, where EAB is recovering from illness, but well enough to scramble about on the Great Orme and the Little Orme, although 'Mother is by no means as strong & active as she used to be'. Other companions are the Lawrence family of Balsall Heath, Mr & Mrs Charles Potts of Chester and the Peytons from Birmingham She reports that the Miss Ronalds think Miss Rachel Martineau's school & Mr J Martineau's instruction 'superior to everything else'. EJR should not be surprised that others are not as enthusiastic as she is 'about young ladies & their mental requirements'. Her aunts, for example, are 'full of their Harrington school, their government examiners, gallery classes, &c., &c.'. The College 'must stand on its own merits', and she should also not let her offers of paying for pupils become widely known, lest it be seen as a 'benevolent institution'. EAB deplores the 'terrible disadvantage that Mr Newman's conduct was to us'.

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

[1852?]

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BC RF/103/1/15