Letter of Anna Maria Bennett to Admiral Pye

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 24045F, ff. 1-3.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls006609610
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1785], [?late 20 cent.]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English English.
  • Physical Description
    • 3 ff.
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

A manuscript letter, [1785], from A[nna] M[aria] Bennet[t], [at Tooting, Surrey], to her former lover Admiral Sir Thomas Pye, Suffolk Street, [London], castigating him over his affair with another woman (ff. 1-2).
A transcript of the letter, [?late 20 cent], is also included (f. 3). Bennett describes herself as 'on the wrong side of forty' (f. 1), suggesting a birth date earlier than that given in biographical sources (see for instance The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, ed. by Frederick Burwick, Nancy Moore Goslee and Diane Long Hoeveler (Chichester, 2012), p. 120: 'sometime between 1750 and 1760').

Acquisition Information

Philip Need Rare Books; Dalbeattie; Purchase (Spring 2013 catalogue, item 28); July 2013; 006609610.

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 24045F, ff. 1-3.

Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Affected by damp; repaired at NLW, with some loss of text (ff. 1-2).

Additional Information

Published