BIB_ID
120223
Accession number
MA 1617.453
Creator
Whibley, Charles, 1859-1930.
Display Date
Woburn Sands, England, 1903.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 15.3 x 9.7 cm
Notes
Written from "Wavendon Manor / Woburn Sands."
Housed with five additional letters from Whibley (MA 1617.454, MA 1617.455, MA 1617.456, MA 1617.457 and MA 1617.458). MA 1617.458 is in an unknown hand with Whibley's signature.
The letter is undated. Whibley lived at Wavendon Manor from 1903. Henley died July 11, 1903.
Housed with five additional letters from Whibley (MA 1617.454, MA 1617.455, MA 1617.456, MA 1617.457 and MA 1617.458). MA 1617.458 is in an unknown hand with Whibley's signature.
The letter is undated. Whibley lived at Wavendon Manor from 1903. Henley died July 11, 1903.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "My dear old chap, / A word to say how pleased I was to see you again the other day, and to find you, as I thought, looking so well. And would you tell Madame la Châtelaine that never in my life did I eat a better lunch. I think it was quite perfect. I want to talk to you about many things, and I shall try to get up to town about next Thursday to pass a long afternoon with you. But I am not quite sure which day I can get away. However I will let you know in good time. J.M.B. is always the same, isn't he? I forgot to tell you that I came across Arnold Forster the other day - full of beans & of affection for you, whom he much wanted to see. / God bless you, old chap. / Ever your affectionate / Charles."
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