BIB_ID
102361
Accession number
MA 2770
Creator
Gell, William, Sir, 1777-1836.
Display Date
London, England, 1814-1817?
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Purchased as the gift of the Heineman Foundation 1969.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.0 x 18.0 cm
Notes
Year of writing from the article on the Albany in the Survey of London from British History Online: 'Albany', in Survey of London: Volumes 31 and 32, St James Westminster, Part 2, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1963), pp. 367-389. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols31-2/pt2/pp367-389 [accessed 16 May 2019].
Written from the "Albany."
Address panel to "C.K. Sharpe Esq're / 12 Blenheim St. / Bond Street."
Written in a miniature hand within a text block measuring 3 cm x 5 cm.
Written from the "Albany."
Address panel to "C.K. Sharpe Esq're / 12 Blenheim St. / Bond Street."
Written in a miniature hand within a text block measuring 3 cm x 5 cm.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 1969.
Summary
Saying "I am much obliged by your kind offer of an opera ticket but I shall not be able to go till late in the evening. You and your letter on arcadian subjects are very entertaining. I think of sending you a bottle of walnut juice to colour your hands. In the meantime buy and read Daphnis & Chloe, a Greek romance in french at Mr. De Coudrey's(?) in bond Street. I promise you much entertainment in it. I shall go to the Lyceum in the Strand at 9 this evening after Heathcotes(?) dinner. I am truly sorry to write to you in so large and vulgar a hand but [illegible] my eyes are bad and I cannot see in the morning."
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