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MARTINEAU, Harriet (1802-1876). Two autograph letters signed to Richard Monckton Milnes, Ambleside, 1 March - 2 April, n.y., hoping to have a last quiet talk 'in this most serene of all places', as her health is so precarious, 'I think it not very probable that I shall live many weeks', remembering with gratitude 'how kindly & effectually you ministered to me in my other great illness', reflecting on the last ten years of her life which had been 'worth all the rest together', reminding him that she saw his wife first in 1851 before his marriage, and giving directions to her house, 6½ pages, 8vo; together with an engraved visiting card of 'Mrs Harriet Martineau', annotated in her hand with 'Mrs' underlined, and an engraving of The Knoll, Ambleside, annotated by Monckton Milnes 'March 18th 1855. Miss M sends her kind regards'.
Probably dating from 1855 when the heart disease from which she sufferred was diagnosed as fatal. (She survived for more than twenty years.) Monckton Milnes dedicated a poem to her Christian Endurance which appeared as one of a series of Arabian Legends in Palm Leaves (1844). It was in 1844 that she had suffered her earlier severe illness which, thought at the time to be fatal, was cured my mesmerism. (4)
Probably dating from 1855 when the heart disease from which she sufferred was diagnosed as fatal. (She survived for more than twenty years.) Monckton Milnes dedicated a poem to her Christian Endurance which appeared as one of a series of Arabian Legends in Palm Leaves (1844). It was in 1844 that she had suffered her earlier severe illness which, thought at the time to be fatal, was cured my mesmerism. (4)