Letter

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 HAM/1/17/35
  • Dates of Creation
      14 Jun 1785
  • Physical Description
      1 piece; 1 sheet. Condition: the sheet is beginning to tear.

Scope and Content

Letter from Lady Catherine Herries to Mary Hamilton. She writes to enquire if Hamilton could assist her friend in 'getting a Piano Forte by Doc[to]r Burney's means'. The letter continues on this subject and also on the poems of the 'milk woman' [Ann Yearsley née Cromartie (bap. 1753, d. 1806), poet and writer: see HAM/1/6/6/2].