BS/1/16/9

BS/1/16/9

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Letter from Susan Wordsworth to the Mayoress of Salisbury

1 Jun 1894

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Handwritten letter signed "Susan E Wordsworth" to "My dear Mayoress" in which she says she has "asked the Bishop to write a few lines to tell you how very sorry I am that we have not been able to entertain The Mayor of Salisbury and yourself this year"; she also asks the Mayoress to thank "the ladies of Salisbury for their unvarying kindness", refers to "their willingness to take up any thing suggested to them for the benefit of the women and girls of Salisbury" and encourages them in charitable work "for mothers among the poor". Susan Esther Wordsworth (1842-1894) was the daughter of Henry Coxe (1811-1881), Bodley's Librarian (1860-1881). She married John Wordsworth in 1870 and died later in 1894, the year of this letter. She refers in it to "my illness" ("I am able just now to do very little even in the way of thinking and talking and much less of writing"). John Wordsworth remarried in 1896.

English

Material: paper