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

To J.R. Lowell : autograph poem and appended note signed : to Joseph B. Gilder, [1889].

BIB_ID
121279
Accession number
MA 238.28
Creator
Locker-Lampson, Frederick, 1821-1895.
Display Date
[1889].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Marked "duplicate" on p. 1; the note from Locker-Lampson explains that he is sending a duplicate to Gilder in case the first copy went astray.
Part of a large collection of letters and poems written as tributes to James Russell Lowell on his 70th birthday. Items in the collection are described in separate records; see MA 238 for more information.
The second page is written on mourning stationery with "25 Chesham Street, S.W." printed on it.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Joseph B. Gilder, 1905.
Summary
In celebration of the 70th birthday of James Russell Lowell.