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BC RF/103/1/19: Letter from Cliff Lodge, Sandown, Isle of Wight, 30 August [1854]
Letter from Cliff Lodge, Sandown, Isle of Wight, describing the delights of Sandown, and reporting that she has had a 'slight attack of the prevailing complaint', which she treated with 'proper medicine' and brandy. She muses about her relationship…
BC RF/103/1/20: Letter from Cliff Lodge, Sandown, Isle of Wight, 18 September [1854]
Letter from Cliff Lodge, Sandown, Isle of Wight, expressing her concerns about her brother [Surgeon J.A. Bostock] while cholera was 'raging' at Varna, and her anxiety now that the expedition is departing to the Crimea. She is staying in the house of…
BC RF/103/1/22: Letter from The Dingle, Farmfield, 24 December [1854]
Letter from The Dingle, Farmfield, reporting that Mme Mohl has requested a copy of EAB's father's unpublished translation of Pliny for M. Roulin. Her brother Ashton has written about 'the wretchedness of the camp [in the Crimea]'. EAB has met 'Mr…
BC RF/103/1/23: Letter from Thingwall Hall near Liverpool, 28 January 1855
Letter from Thingwall Hall near Liverpool [home of her cousin Mrs Thompson], reporting that her brother Ashton has been ill on board a ship at Balaclava and gave a terrible description of the sufferings of the army. He is now at the camp again where…
BC RF/103/1/24: Letter from Mount Edgecombe House, Tunbridge Wells, 8 April [c. 1858?]
Letter from Mount Edgecombe House, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where EAB is staying with her sister in law Harriet Bostock and her children Johnnie and Harriet. There are good reports of Aunt Maria [Yates].
BC RF/103/1/25: Letter from Ulster Terrace, [c. 1858?]
Letter from Ulster Terrace reporting that she has had a feverish cold, so suggests that Miss Potticary [a cousin of EJR] undertakes EJR's commissions.
BC RF/103/1/26: Letter from 41 Bedford Square, 23 March 1855
Letter from 41 Bedford Square, Mrs Hodgson's house, giving her reaction [to being asked to be a trustee for the College?]: '[I] must not & will not refuse what seems to come before me as my highest duty...'
BC RF/103/1/27: Letter from Clarges Street, [August 1854]
Letter from Clarges Street, in which EAB speculates that 'The condition of women will...be brought to a crisis...by these sewing machines, which will soon take from our women their almost only miserable occupation', and writes generally about women's…
BC RF/103/1/28: Letter from Clarges Street [c. 1855?]
Letter from Clarges Street reporting that her Uncle James [Yates] wrote to Mr Bowman about the English chair at Bedford Square College, and concluding that 'We shall be obliged to have a female Professor, Mrs Jameson to whit'. EAB comments on…
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