Florence Elizabeth Baird Smith, née De Quincey, a daughter of the English writer Thomas De Quincey. She was the widow of Richard Baird Smith, engineer with the East India Company. · To Edmund Law Lushington, classical scholar : 5 letters...
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Florence Elizabeth Baird Smith, née De Quincey, a daughter of the English writer Thomas De Quincey. She was the widow of Richard Baird Smith, engineer with the East India Company. · To Edmund Law Lushington, classical scholar : 5 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Nov 1889 : (MISC 4325) : 14 pages (3 double sheets, 1 single sheet) + envelope : from 58 Eversfield Place, St. Leonards-on-sea : I am ashamed of being so long in answering your last kind note but as you see I am a wanderer . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 23 Dec 1889 : (MISC 4326) : 8 pages (2 double sheets) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "Many and varied demands upon me have interfered each day with my writing since I received your delightful gift . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [29 Dec 1889] : (MISC 4327) : 4 pages (double sheet) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I hasten to correct a wrong impression I think I must have given of my usefulness to Colonel [?Gull] . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 4 Jan 1890 : (MISC 4328) : 4 pages (double sheet) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I am so glad I did not give you any undue idea of my [?--tical] importance to our dear friend . . . ." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 7 Mar 1890 : (MISC 4329) : 8 pages (2 double sheets) + envelope : from 81, Lexham Gardens, Kensington. W. (printed stationery) : begins, "I have been somewhat burdened during the last three weeks with a sore throat and cold . . . .".
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