A Guide to the Letters to "Lizzie" Elliot 1909
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Collection
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6817-k
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Preferred Citation
Letters to "Lizzie" Elliot, Accession # 6817-k, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
Purchased from David J. Holmes on March 24, 1998.
Scope and Content Information
In this collection of letters, Frances Hodgson Burnett writes concerning the building of her new home and the opening of her play Dawn of Tomorrow. She regrets not being able to see her and suggests visits.
Contents List
Written while building her new home at Plandome, Long Island, and when her play, The Dawn of a Tomorrow opened in New York, Burnett says she is overwhelmed with play production and home building but they must take time to see each other nevertheless; suggests lunch at the Colony Club, then a weekend at her new home, and attending a matinee performance of her new play.
Hodgson writes that her sister, Edith (Hodgson) Fahnestock Jordan, has been trying to reach her on the telephone and sends her love, regrets missing her in Washington, they will sail on Saturday the 26th, and she herself has been crowded with business affairs, concerning her books, illustrations, plays, and other legal matters, but must see her nonetheless.