Letters

Description: Letters from the Rev. Whitwell Elwin (1816-1900, writer and editor, rector of Booton 1849-1900) to his wife Frances, dated from Old Hummums, Newstead, Wimbledon Park, and 46 Montagu Square, with description of Sir William Napier and his family, Wellington's assessment of Marlborough, reporting conversations with Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham and Thackeray, the letter including Thackeray's quarrel with Dickens, his new house, his work on the 'Virginians' and his affection for Mrs Brookfield, 'the tragedy of my life'

Date: 01/01/1858 - 31/12/1861

Last import: September 11, 2017