Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, Irish-born writer. · To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Aug [ca. early 1850's] : (BLES 3.225) : 8 pages (6 single sheets) : from Firfield, Addlestone, Surrey :...
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Anna Maria Hall, née Fielding, Irish-born writer. · To Richard Robert Madden, author and colonial administrator : 1 autograph letter signed : 3 Aug [ca. early 1850's] : (BLES 3.225) : 8 pages (6 single sheets) : from Firfield, Addlestone, Surrey : begins, "The letters you were so good as to mention, were sent to me, and I was very much obliged. They contained nothing of importance, were very, very stupid, and alluded in a painful manner to a very remarkable, but as it turned out, most unfortunate individual, since dead ..."; with much on the character of the late Lady Blessington. The letter continues in a copy in another hand [Madden's?] as (BLES 3.226b), with a note at the head of the page: "In a subsequent communication of the 3rd of Augt Mrs Hall adds:". -- Mounted in v. 3 of the Blessington Papers.
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