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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)HMLAdd/82
TitleLetter from Harriet Martineau to Sarah Martineau
Extent2 items
Date1869
DescriptionLetter written from [Ambleside], to Foxholes, dated 20 April. Harriet discusses her health and family news. She explains that Jenny has a plan for giving governesses and female artists a holiday in the country for a month each summer. Harriet concludes with a brief comment on politics: 'The state of things seems to me very serious indeed... A Royal family so absurdly inadequate to the time is no small peril, though a perverse one might be much worse.' The original envelope is included.
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