BIB_ID
157450
Accession number
MA 8986
Creator
Blackie, John Stuart, 1809-1895.
Display Date
[1874] March 17.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.1 cm
Notes
Blackie dates the letter only "17 March"; a note in an unknown hand on the back of the letter gives as a fuller date "17 March 74."
Embossed letterhead with the seal of the University of Edinburgh.
Blackie gives a place of writing but it is illegible.
Embossed letterhead with the seal of the University of Edinburgh.
Blackie gives a place of writing but it is illegible.
Summary
Sending his autograph; adding in a postscript that he hopes "you have begun with good omens to clear the Aegean Stable of political [illegible word] in your part of the world, and especially in New York, where the Devil in the most recent times is currently believed to have his most favorite residence."
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