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Autograph Letter Signed ‘Rosalind Carlisle’, to Mrs. Watson, about assisting the Newcastle Invalid Loan Society, hoping to provide next year “a few beds at the disposal of women in Newcastle or other big towns who are not ill, but who are weak & tired & who want rest”. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. Naworth Castle, Cumberland, 2 June 1890. Rosalind Frances Howard, Countess of Carlisle (née Stanley; 1845 – 1921), known as The Radical Countess, was a promoter of women’s political rights and temperance movement activist.