Your neglected but doating Slave [Harriet Hosmer], Antignano, to My inconstant but still Beloved [John Gibson] | Archives | RA Collection

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Royal Academy of Arts Archive
1. John Gibson, RA, papers
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Reference code

GI/1/189

Title

Your neglected but doating Slave [Harriet Hosmer], Antignano, to My inconstant but still Beloved [John Gibson]

Date

04 Sep [c. 1860]

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Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

Hosmer asks Gibson to inform Lady Eastlake that she accepted her invitation to visit England the following summer. The letter contains [light hearted] banter about her matrimonial prospects with men such as [Penry] Williams and [William] Boxall. Hosmer had received a letter from [Charlotte] Cushman saying that she would be in Rome on 1 October: "[s]o I shall not be an old bachelor this winter." The chief attraction at Antignano was bathing, though Hosmer believed that Gibson did not care for that.