<< YCBA Home Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art << YCBA Home

YCBA Collections Search

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 32
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, in typical fashion, expressing worries about home while away. She asks Leslie and their son Robert to write and tell her more about what is going on at home. She notes that Caroline has told her of a "little sweeper girl" who "rings the bell very often," and asks Leslie to have a servant, Amelia, warn the girl and then report her to the police. She hopes that George's Sunday clothes will be readied for church and closes, perhaps unintentionally comically, "your lovely wife, Harriet Leslie." A postscript reports that a Mrs. Stone is going to visit a Mr. Armstrong and is very proud of the fact; although Harriet has already had a call from him, she has not informed Mrs. Stone.
Physical Description:
3 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 18 x 23 cm. Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and brown/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/1270
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1270?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1