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Add. MS a/784/5/2
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Letter from Philip Barton Baker to Amy Elizabeth Dell
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- 31 Oct. 1900 (Creation)
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1 folded sheet.
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National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, S.W. - Has just finished reading Aurora Leigh and 'marked a number of passages'; asks if Lillie would like to read his copy some time. Has 'so enjoyed this poem' and will always associate it with 'a certain Wed[nesda]y afternoon you may possible be able to recall'.
Note at top of letter: 'From Philip B. Baker (my father) to Lily Baker (Dell) (my mother). O. E. B. [Olive Elizabeth Baker or Braithwaite, Bertha's half sister]'.
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- Baker, Philip Barton (1866-1916), manufacturing engineer (Subject)
- Baker, Amy Elizabeth (1870-1965), née Dell, known as Lillie, second wife of Philip Barton Baker (Subject)
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), poet (Subject)
- Braithwaite, Olive Elizabeth (1902-1990), née Baker, first married name Gaskell (Subject)