| Description | Manuscript. On happiness at Karl's marriage to Maria; delight at seeing Maria with the newborn Sigrid; letter in March 1894 encloses various documents from the Sharpe family home in Highbury Terrace, comprising a letter from Maria to her Aunt Lucy in 1861 about ice-skating and trip to the British Museum; MS titled "A Christmas Story" (M C Sharpe suggests it is Maria's in her letter), silhouttes, and poem titled "Columbus' Voyage" by Maria; news of the birth of Egon and Sigrid's response; on the aunts' roles and responsibilties to nieces and nephews; about Karl and Ralph Thicknesse; being invited to Coldharbour and receiving news of Egon's trip to France; and D R Sharpe's "relapse" into serious illness. |