Letter in diary form from Lady Emily Jane James to an unidentified recipient, dated 9 October [1814]
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U840/C49/8, ‘Lady Emily Jane James: letter in diary form’
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Letter in diary form from Lady Emily Jane James to an unidentified recipient, dated 9 October [1814]
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A letter in diary form from Lady Emily Jane James to an unidentified recipient, dated 9 October [1814].
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Lady Emily Jane James opens with a discussion of a play by Voltaire, before turning to French hairdressing fashions. She ends with a discussion of how barren the countryside is.
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Owned by the Pratt family.
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The papers, the family archive of the Pratt family, were stored in the vaults at Bayham Abbey before being deposited by the Marquess Camden between 1961 and 1980.
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