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Call Number:
MSS 15
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799–1879
Title(s):
Letter to Charles Robert Leslie
Date:
probably 1840s
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 25
Provenance:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Conditions Governing Access:
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use:
Copyright Undetermined

The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Archives Department.
Scope and Content:
Harriet writes to report her safe arrival and that she has seen a Miss Julia Moore, who took her to the Moore home. She asks Charles to "give [her] love to the army at home" and comments on "the commander of the Theatre," who is perhaps one of the children. She closes with a cryptic postscript saying, "The little lady lived at Kingston."
Physical Description:
2 pages (1 leaf) ; 18.2 x 11.5 cm. Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and black ink.
Genre:
Correspondence , Pictorial works, Albums (Books), Autobiographies, Cut-paper works, Graphite drawings, Pen and ink drawings, Letters, Sketchbooks, and Watercolors (paintings)
Subject Terms:
Dance
Military uniforms
Painters
Painting
Painting, British
Panoramas
Subject Period:
19th century
Associated Places:
Great Britain
Associated People/Groups:
Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859
Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
Finding Aid Title:
Charles Robert Leslie Collection
Collection PDF:
https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/8.pdf
Archival Object:
https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/1263
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1263?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1