Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Invitation : autograph poem signed with initials : London, to R. W. Elliston, 1805 November 16.

BIB_ID
108339
Accession number
MA 9508
Creator
Dowton, William, 1764-1851.
Display Date
1805 November 16.
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 31.0 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Being a poem of 20 lines inviting him to dinner, offering many menu options and concluding "A Spare Rib be it - Sunday - Four exact - Methinks I see the 'Wonders [illegible] enact."