Unidad documental simple 6 - Letter from Elizabeth Phebe Bright to Lord Houghton

2 ff., with enclosure, 1 fragment.

Ashfield. - Encloses list of manuscripts collected by her father; he particularly valued a MS volume of writings by American authors; it was exchanged with Mr Fields of Boston for Mayall's photograph of Hawthorne, of which only one impression was taken of the time; does not know of items relating to American independence but most of the Presidents were represented, though Mr Randolph Robinson did not quite succeed in filling all the gaps; her father also had some interesting stamps. [Letter incomplete: end missing].

Enclosure: 'MSS at Ashfield' [incomplete list by Elizabeth Bright, end missing. 1884?].