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Call Number:
MSS 15
Holdings:
Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Creator:
Leslie, Mary, 1833–1907
Title(s):
Letter to Harriet Stone Leslie
Date:
probably 1851 or 1852, July 15
Classification:
Archives and Manuscripts
Series:
Series III: Correspondence
Part of Collection:
1, folder 46
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:
Mary writes to her mother, sending the letter with Bradford as he heads home for a visit. Mary reports on a recent event (perhaps the opening) at the Chepstow Bridge, saying that it "looked beautiful all decorated with flags, I was just in time to see the first engine driven across..." She asks her mother to send along a "blue band," part of a dress that she has received from home, but whose "defect" can only be concealed with the missing band. She comments on the pleasant "bauuing" of the sheep and lambs outside her window at night. She includes an unfinished watercolor of a verdant riverbank with a bridge across it.
Physical Description:
4 pages (1 folded leaf) ; 18 x 22 cm. Autograph letter, signed; written in pen and brown/black ink with watercolor illustration.
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, Harriet Honor Stone, 1799-1879
Leslie, Mary, 1833-1907
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/1285
Metadata Cloud URL:
https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/1285?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1