SEWELL (Elizabeth Missing, 1815-1906, Novelist)

Group of 5 Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Bramston or to Miss Anna Bramston, asking if she knows "what it is to be doubtful whether you have written a letter which you fully intended to write?" and thanking her "in the name of the Managers ... for your great kindness to Miss Seymour" at St. Boniface ( c. 1870), hoping to accept "your tempting invitation ... I think we shall go to the afternoon service at the Cathedral & then ... if you would receive us go to the Deanery" (c.1880), explaining with figures how her servants use the Government Annuities scheme, paying in or drawing while still on full wages, Miss Bramston's book on Winchester "is most interesting" (Easter Eve,1883), "I arrived quite safely ... bearing ... the remembrance of your great kindness", her nephew "has only lately taken this Preparatory School for the Weymouth College ... a most pleasant change from Leamington", and trusting "Dr Bramston had a good night" (18th August 1888), and sending "a small sum ... for the ... school and in honor of Miss Yonge", since Mrs Bramston died "life must seem ... quite altered. I am glad though that you have Miss Leroy with you ... I grow very old myself though I keep well", and thanking her for the pamphlets and "such a record of your Mother" (14th January 1898), 14 sides 8vo., Ashcliff, Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, and Cleveland House, Weymouth, c.1870 -

Miss Sewell, sister of the Warden of New College Oxford, took private pupils at Bonchurch from 1852 to 1891, and in 1866 founded at Ventnor the St. Boniface Schools for middle-class girls. Dr John Bramston, b. 1802, was Dean of Winchester.

Item Date:  1898

Stock No:  19955      £275

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