Leslie, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799–1879, Letter to Charles Robert Leslie, probably 1840s
- 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 38
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Copyright UndeterminedThe 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:
- An apparent fragment of a letter, in which Harriet writes about a Miss Doyle, of whom she approves "for the Girls." She writes that "Captain gives a sorry account of the Major Leslie, I mean the Mrs..." and goes on to quote a woman complaining about the inferiority of London. Perhaps she refers to C.R. Leslie's brother, Capt. Thomas Jefferson Leslie, who had had a distinguished career with the U.S. Army.
- Physical Description:
- 2 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 13.5 x 18 cm. Fragment of autograph letter, not 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:
- DanceMilitary uniformsPaintersPaintingPainting, BritishPanoramas
- Subject Period:
- 19th century
- Associated Places:
- Great Britain
- Associated People/Groups:
- Leslie, Charles Robert, 1794-1859Leslie, 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/1276
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1276?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1