Letter
Mary Philips (1799 - 1878)
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Unknown
Materials
Measurements
230 x 194 mm
Collection
Quarry Bank, Cheshire
NT 1459159
Summary
Incomplete letter from Mary Greg (nee Phillips) to her son Robert Phillips Greg at school. Talks of reading Paley with Caroline Greg but thinks she might be too young, asks what Robert and his younger brother Ted (Edward Hyde Greg) think of Caroline reading Paley. Talks of her sons growing up and how this makes her and Robert Hyde Greg elderly, and parents of a man not a child. Robert Hyde Greg enjoyed Mark Phillips' speech in parliament.
Makers and roles
Mary Philips (1799 - 1878), author