Mary [Browne] Carpenter to Frederick Douglass, 1872 [incomplete]
charles this time of the year. she lives only 20 miles from Bridport with my Sister Mrs Blake & her family. Mr & Mrs Blake drove over with my MotherBrowne, Mary Osler
Mary Osler Browne (c. 1785-1877) was the wife of the businessman William Browne (c. 1791-1859) and the sister of Thomas Osler (1783-1861), founder of F. & C. Osler, who was one of the most prominent crystal manufacturers in nineteenth-century Britain, specializing in chandeliers and fountains. 1841 England Census, Gloucestershire, Bristol, 22; England and Wales, Christening Records, 1530-1906 (online); England and Wales, Death Index, 1837-1915 (online); Sandra Davison, Conservation and Restoration of Glass (1989; Burlington, Mass., 2003), 71.
a week ago—& returned home the same evening.—She is well for her age, 86—enjoys reading & can walk pretty well but of course she is very frail & requires watchful care. She was gratified at your kind words of rememberance of her—she always hears of you with much interest & rejoices in your success. My Sister Lucy with her husband (Mr Charles Thomas who called on you one Sunday