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Collection of letters from John Mathew Gutch, Common Hill, to Frederick William Fairholt, 1843-1856 : autograph manuscripts signed.

BIB_ID
105623
Accession number
MA 4337.1-25
Creator
Gutch, John Mathew, 1776-1861.
Display Date
Worcester, England, 1843-1856.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
25 items (63 pages) : illustrations (drawings) ; various sizes with one envelope.
Notes
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume of A lytell geste of Robin Hode, London, 1847, 2 Vols. PML 7970-7971.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Summary
Concerning his collection of poems, songs, ballads and historical notes about Robin Hood [A lytell geste of Robin Hode (1847)], its compilation and publication, especially regarding Fairholt's woodcut illustrations for the two-volume work. Letters in the collection have been described individually in twenty-five separate catalog records; see related records for more information.