Letters to Alfred Edward Chalon, RA (1780-1860)

Item author: Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1802-82)
Item date: 1854-60
Grant Value: £750
Item cost: £950
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2007
Item institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire

11 autograph letters from Rosina Bulwer Lytton to Alfred Edward Chalon, portrait and subject painter, 1854-60. The letters contain society news and gossip, literary allusions, comments on politics and much else, including her notorious open feud with her husband, Edward Bulwer Lytton, whose attempt to commit her to a mental institution was thwarted by a public outcry.

Item Provenance
Julian Browning Rare Books and Manuscripts