Zone d'identification
Cote
HOUG/H/A/20
Titre
Facsimile copies of letter from Sydney Smith to Mrs [Norton?] Longman
Date(s)
- 11 Nov. 1833 [postmark] (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
2 folded sheets.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Postmarked Maddox Street, addressed to Mrs N. Longman, Garden Mount, Hampstead. - Submits a humorous plan of a dinner of insects and bugs - 'Cock Chafer Soup', 'Stewed Slugs' etc - which he thinks will be agreeable to ‘Kirby & Spence’ [the authors of… read more
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence and location of copies
A copy of this letter is bound in after page 50 of Crewe MS/18, Transactions of the Philobiblon Society.
Zone des notes
Note
Possibly addressed to Mary, wife of Thomas Norton Longman, though their Hampstead house was usually known as 'Mount Grove'
Note
Corner of letter bearing stamps cut away.