Written from London.
Letters (1838-1857) from Mary Parker, née Babington, to her daughter Mary Ellen [married Edward Joseph Rose in 1855]. Two letters from Mary addressed to both Mary Ellen Rose and her sister Susan Emma Smith (1857).
Letters to Mary Parker from: from B. L. Chapman (six letters); Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth; Hon. Henry David Erskine; Harriet Hall; A. I. [?]; Mary's cousin George R. Kennedy; George Lillingstone; Miss H. Provo; Harry Rainy; Anne Sykes, with additional note to Mary from her mother Jean, née Macaulay; Anne Tibbs.
Parker, Mary (1799-1858), née Babington, wife of Sir James ParkerOn embossed notepaper, Garrick Club, W. C. - Met Houghton at George Wrottesley's in Hereford St and at Newstead; seeks recommendation to Lord Cranworth for Secretaryship of the International Law Commission; his sister Mr Webb would be grateful for any favour shown to him; on Oxford circuit; was Judge in the Falkland Islands for two years.
London - The publication of WW's new edition of 'Grotius' is excellent timing.