- Mary Hamilton Papers

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Mary Hamilton Papers

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Mary Hamilton Papers

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Correspondence from the Dickenson Family

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Correspondence from the Dickenson Family

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Parent Work Title:

Letter from Louisa Dickenson to Mary Hamilton

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Letter from Louisa Dickenson to Mary Hamilton

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Dickenson, Louisa

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Dickenson, Louisa

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1807-09-10

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1807-09-10

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From Louisa Dickenson to her mother in which she describes and gossips about the people she met and the activities carried out on a visit to Chicksands Priory in Befordshire. Louisa writes of a Mr and Mrs Smith and of a Miss Smith who 'is not pretty, has a pretty figure, and not very vulgar'. They were taken into the Library 'at the end of the new gothic room' when they reached Chicksands. There she found Lady H O[sborn' [possible Lady Heneage n?e Finch, (married Sir George Osborn , 4th Baronet in 1788). Lady Calder and her nieces, the two Miss Wilkinson's, were pleasing and unaffected. The party also consisted of Colonel Osborn, Sir Henry Calder who was approximately 19 years old, and the son of Lady Calder. She writes that he was cheerful and good humoured and called Colonel Osborn Uncle. The gentlemen joined the ladies in the Library in the evening. The ladies left them a half hour later and 'all worked, talked and laugh[e]d until Eleven o'clock when 'the young Colonel' [Osborn] came home. She continues that Sir George is to meet 'us at the trees this morning' and that he was in London the previous day. She reports that Lady H was pleased with 'my white paper Puzzles as they call them' as no one had seen any before. She also reports that there is a 'foreign gentleman here' but she has been unable to find out his name. The gentleman sketches and pastes the sketches into a book. Sir H C is 'wild about shooting and asked her if her father also enjoyed it. She does not believe that he has had good sport. Miss Smith boasts that a Mr Pickford 'killed 17 brace of birds before breakfast' and then gave an account of him as being a very 'gentleman like Man', though she had 'already told us, that he is a poacher'. Louisa ends her letter describing the rooms. She sleeps in one of the new rooms and instead of being numbered there is in every room a Greek letter 'painted on the walls to distinguish them'. She is to stay until Monday and that she should return in a Hackney Chaise.

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From Louisa Dickenson to her mother in which she describes and gossips about the people she met and the activities carried out on a visit to Chicksands Priory in Befordshire. Louisa writes of a Mr and Mrs Smith and of a Miss Smith who 'is not pretty, has a pretty figure, and not very vulgar'. They were taken into the Library 'at the end of the new gothic room' when they reached Chicksands. There she found Lady H O[sborn' [possible Lady Heneage n?e Finch, (married Sir George Osborn , 4th Baronet in 1788). Lady Calder and her nieces, the two Miss Wilkinson's, were pleasing and unaffected. The party also consisted of Colonel Osborn, Sir Henry Calder who was approximately 19 years old, and the son of Lady Calder. She writes that he was cheerful and good humoured and called Colonel Osborn Uncle. The gentlemen joined the ladies in the Library in the evening. The ladies left them a half hour later and 'all worked, talked and laugh[e]d until Eleven o'clock when 'the young Colonel' [Osborn] came home. She continues that Sir George is to meet 'us at the trees this morning' and that he was in London the previous day. She reports that Lady H was pleased with 'my white paper Puzzles as they call them' as no one had seen any before. She also reports that there is a 'foreign gentleman here' but she has been unable to find out his name. The gentleman sketches and pastes the sketches into a book. Sir H C is 'wild about shooting and asked her if her father also enjoyed it. She does not believe that he has had good sport. Miss Smith boasts that a Mr Pickford 'killed 17 brace of birds before breakfast' and then gave an account of him as being a very 'gentleman like Man', though she had 'already told us, that he is a poacher'. Louisa ends her letter describing the rooms. She sleeps in one of the new rooms and instead of being numbered there is in every room a Greek letter 'painted on the walls to distinguish them'. She is to stay until Monday and that she should return in a Hackney Chaise.

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Great Britain--Description and travel

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Great Britain--Description and travel

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Letters

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Letters

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Great Britain--Social life and customs

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Great Britain--Social life and customs

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