Wilmot [married name Bradford] (Martha, traveller, diarist, and editor, 1775-1873) Autograph Letter signed "Aunt Sylvia" to her nephew Edward Wilmot in Ireland, 4pp. & address panel, first page written crossways, Storrington [Sussex], 13th June 1831, congratulating her nephew on becoming a father, family news and the problems of travelling, "Sylvia comes to tell you the present situation of your monstrous portfolio together with all the extra baggage belonging to ourselves. They are all lying at Hamburg waiting, like ourselves to know our fate - for at this moment we know no more than you do whether we shall return to Vienna or not...", folds.

⁂ Wilmot was a friend of the Russian Princess Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (1743-1810). "Wilmot’s most important intervention unquestionably lay in persuading Dashkova to write her memoir, something the older woman had hitherto resisted. This is attested to by Dashkova herself, who referred to Wilmot as ‘my young friend, by whose persuasion I have overcome the repugnance which I formerly felt at the idea of writing this memoir’ (Bradford, Memoirs, 1.204). The text preserved and translated by Wilmot is, arguably, the most important eighteenth-century memoir by a Russian woman." - Oxford DNB.