Ellen Kean letter to Mrs. Talfourd

              Torrington Square 
Sunday Sept 12 

Dear Mrs Talfourd 
Thank you very much indeed 
for your agreeable letter -I take it very kind of 
you to have written to me so soon. How very fortunate 
you were in your passage -the dear children keeping 
so well too -for of all miseries I think a set of 
helpless little creatures suffering from illness you 
can do nothing is most dreadful. 
From your description I imagine you to be in 
a most delightful situation. Wardie Brae sounds 
like a pleasant place. By this time you have 
seen much wonderment at the city. Is it not fine? 
Some of the happiest days of my life were spent in 
Edinborough, and I have a sort of veneration for it. 
You must see old Davie Dean's house at St. Leonards -and 
the poor Laird's not far from Holyrood house -and 

(The following overwritten on first page) 

I have received your second letter and kept 
mine open for more last words which often 
had not time to write. Dear old Holyrood House: how I should 
like to see it once more. I have a piece of 
furniture. Did you not smile at that green gallery of Scottish 
things? I have had a note from Mr. White in which he 
tells me that Mr Talfourd      is that his friend 
Mr. George Jones is about to act "Ion" by permission of the Author 
I know Mr. Talfourd has no power over what they do in America 
and Mr Price can only prevent its being done at his own 
Theatre -It will undoubtedly done both at the "Bowrie and 
the National Theatres before my arrival. I regret it - but 
it cannot be prevented. It is really    of both and 
I cannot say 

Ever Yours 

Ellen