BIB_ID
106682
Accession number
MA 9788
Creator
Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883.
Display Date
Maidenhead, England, 1861 January 11.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 18.1 x 11.1 cm
Notes
Written on mourning stationery to "R. Lenox Kennedy Esq'r" on "My 72nd birth-day."
Removed from the Kennedy copy of Shakespeare's First Folio (PML 5124) which was deaccessioned from The Morgan Library in 1976. The volume is cited in the census of First Folios as Lee 38 and West 199.
Removed from the Kennedy copy of Shakespeare's First Folio (PML 5124) which was deaccessioned from The Morgan Library in 1976. The volume is cited in the census of First Folios as Lee 38 and West 199.
Provenance
Formerly in the Irwin Collection.
Summary
Thanking him for the gift of the inkstand; saying "I am indebted to you & to other unseen and personally unknown friends in the United States for a very handsome Inkstand, not less handsomely inscribed to me. I can only thank you most heartily, and add my humble hope that I really deserve some part of the good opinion that the present so kindly & confidingly testifies."
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