A. Kennicott to HM, undated September 29

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 88

Identifier: Series 1.

Staff Only

Scope and Content

From the Item:

This collection contains letters written between Hannah More and a variety of correspondents, in addition to other manuscripts (including notebooks and poems) and visual materials. The collection also contains letters that are not addressed to Hannah More, including three letters from members of the Bluestocking Circle. Among the visual materials are engraved portraits of Hannah More and drawings of her home at Barley Wood.

Much of the descriptive information for this collection came from: Women, Morality and Advice Literature: Manuscripts and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More (1745-1833) and Her Circle from the Clark Library, Los Angeles, edited by Patricia Demers, Anne Mellor, and Janice Devereux. Marlborough: Adam Matthew Publications, 2005.

Dates

Creation: undated September 29

Language of Material

From the Item:

English

Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Item: 3 Linear Feet (5 boxes)

Additional Description

Physical Description

4 pages, incomplete. Refers to the "milk woman," the poet Ann Yearsley. Dated probably 1784 based on this reference.

Listed in Women, Morality, and Advice Literature, page 58, as "29 September. To: [?] 4 leaves incomplete. Copy by HM? incomplete. Concerns the milk woman." The letter is written to HM, and is attributed to A. Kennicott based on the handwriting.