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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)HMLAdd/192
TitlePhotocopy of letter from Harriet Martineau, Tynemouth addressed to 'Dear Eliza' [?Eliza Bostock], 27 0ct
Extent1 item
Date[c 1833]
DescriptionShe refers to a visit from Sir C. Clarke [Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, her physician]. She writes about her health and makes a range of criticisms about Clarke and his diagnosis. She also writes of other people: Mrs [Elizabeth Jesser] Reid - who has been writing letters from her travels, Fanny and her friend, Hilary Carter. She ends with a reference to the near completion of her 'poor 4th vol & there I stop' and notes that Eliza's 'judgement of vol 3 is justified by its reception' [possibly referring to her four volumes of 'Poor Laws and Paupers', published in 1833-34]
Access StatusOpen
OriginalsThe original of this letter is held by the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, London; ref MS 7307/1

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