BIB_ID
196214
Accession number
MA 14078
Creator
Doyle, Francis Hastings, Sir, 1810-1888, sender.
Display Date
Bournemouth, England, 1883? January 5.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence; Doyle's eldest son, Francis Grenville Doyle, a captain in the 2nd dragoon guards, died from the effects of the Egyptian campaign on 2 December 1882.
Written from "Undercliff / Bourne-mouth."
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Written from "Undercliff / Bourne-mouth."
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing him that he has sent him another Leeds Mercury; noting that the recipient probably knew Doyle's father when Doyle Sr., 1st Baronet, served as resident commissioner of excise in Dublin; saying that if he is unable to meet Mr. Wills, he must "make or renew" his acquaintance with Wills's son, who Doyle met at the wedding of his cousin Henry Milner to Charlotte (Beresford); relating an encounter with Lady Charleville, who repoached him for his likeness to someone "against whom she bore a grudge for having jilted a friend of hers some sixty or seventy years before"; sending him some lines of verse from a commemorative plaque for his son (Captain Francis Grenville Doyle) which was put up by his troop at their Christmas dinner (following his death earlier that month on December 2, 1882).
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