Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Amelia Alderson Opie letter.
Level of description
Collection
Reference code
SCA68-WA38
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
1 cm of textual records
Archival description area
Name of creator
(1769-1853)
Biographical history
Amelia Alderson was an English Romantic author. Amelia was born November 12, 1769 in Norwich, England and married the painter John Opie in 1798. She was a radical thinker and involved in a circle that included John Horne Tooke and Mary Wollstonecraft. In ... »
Scope and content
One holograph letter from Amelia Alderson Opie to an unidentified correspondent dated May 5, 1838 refusing an invitation.
Notes area
General note
Letter has been affixed to the inside cover of a rare book; F3944 "Amelia the Tale of a Plain Friend"