A Guide to the Letter from Frances Hodgson Burnett to "Dear Miss Scott" March 28, 1894 Burnett, Frances Hodgson, Letter to "Dear Miss Scott" 6817-g

A Guide to the Letter from Frances Hodgson Burnett to "Dear Miss Scott" March 28, 1894

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Accession Number 6817-g

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

6817-g

Title

Letter from Frances Hodgson Burnett to "Dear Miss Scott," March 28, 1894

Physical Characteristics

This holding consists of a single letter, ALS, 4 p. on 1 l.

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Letter from Frances Hodgson Burnett to "Dear Miss Scott", Accession # 6817-g, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This holding was purchased from David Holmes of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 27, 1993.

Scope and Content Information

In this letter to "Dear Miss Scott" Frances Hodgson Burnett of 1770 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C., writes to arrange a date for spending an evening with "the young ladies of the Institute" before she sails for England on May second and suggests April the fourth; asks that Mr. [Fabell ?] "allow the evening to be quite private. I want to have the pleasant informal feeling of merely talking as it were to a lot of nice girls. It won't interest me in the least if I have the sense of an audience."; and asks her correspondent to thank Mr. Fabell for the photograph which he sent her. The dating of the letter is based on internal evidence with information from the biography of Burnett by her son, Vivian Burnett, The Romantick Lady , pages 224-230.