Copy of extracts from letters Ellen Fletcher, to her family
TitleCopy of extracts from letters Ellen Fletcher, to her family
ReferenceMS976/9
Date
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Scope and ContentCopy of extracts from letters Ellen Fletcher, Brown-Séquards' 1st wife, to her family. She states that she is very busy as Brown-Séquard is always losing things, and at the moment she has to be his second sight, as he has lost his glasses; that she has to do copies and translations, and above all cheer him up, as he was subject to fits of profound depression there. Regrets that they did not stay in Mauritius, where people had treated her husband with respect, and where they had many friends and received many invitations where they had better house and better servants. She herself was so accustomed to seeing her husband treated with respect, that she was not happy in Richmond where he met with no sympathy. March, 1855. In the second extract she states that Brown-Séquard would not stay at Richmond long, as he had been asked to take a course which did not suit him at all, and he did not like the 'spirit of slavery'. She concludes by saying that Madame Brown-Séquard had written letters from Mauritius which had been published in a New York Journal in 1857. These extracts in hand-writing of Charlotte Brown-Séquard
Advisory notice: The term slavery was historically used to describe people legally the property of another. It is derogatory, dehumanizes those persons and normalise it as an identifier.
Advisory notice: The term slavery was historically used to describe people legally the property of another. It is derogatory, dehumanizes those persons and normalise it as an identifier.
LanguageFrench
SubjectSlavery
Levelfile