Autograph letter signed with initials : [Harristown, Ireland], to Joan Severn, [1886 June].

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Autograph letter signed with initials : [Harristown, Ireland], to Joan Severn, [1886 June].

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Explaining that she is sending a packet of I.L.P.U. [Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union] literature in advance of the Federal Election on Irish Home Rule; discussing Edward Lear's "Nonsense Botany" and Irish daffodils; thanking her for sending the "dietary rules. I am sure they are excellent & I will keep them carefully--I mean I will keep them in a drawer. I am not so sure of keeping them as we keep, or ought to keep, the ten commandments. I think I will wait till I am a little fatter;" relating news of a friend who was "enormously fat" who went to a "sort of Hospital or Cure establishment;" relating news of their bad weather.

1 item (7 p.) ; 18.0 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8145546

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