LINTON (Eliza Lynn, 1822-1898, Novelist and Journalist)

Autograph letter signed to Mrs Suckling senior, (Caroline, daughter of William Loaden, wife, 1847, of Vice-Admiral W.B. Suckling of Highwood Lodge, 1788-1865, near Romsey), saying she has left London and "taken a small house in Malvern ... battling ... with ... the modern servant ... simply profligate of the most abandoned kind ... I found 'society' too small for me at last ... a tendency to bronchitis and pneumonia", talking of the past and remaining members of her family, and her daughter Lucy's children, "the boys have all been very handsome ... in the navy ... an army chaplain ... the Stock Exchange in Glasgow, & the youngest is in Africa ... an 'explorer', which does not bring grist to his private mill ... I am very glad you wrote to me ... as we grow older we do turn back in love to the old friends & the old times! Aff[ectionatel]y yours dear 'Caro'", 4 sides 7" x 4½", Brougham House, Malvern, 12th July

Eliza Lynn was on the staff of the Morning Chronicle, 1848-1851, and a correspondent in Paris, 1851-1854. Her 'Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland', 1885, is largely from her own life. With an old note "Author of 'Grasp your Nettle', etc. etc.".

Item Date:  1896

Stock No:  53556      £100

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