BIB_ID
196216
Accession number
MA 14081
Creator
Doyle, James E. (James Edmund), 1822-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, undated.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.8 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written from "17 Cambridge Terrace, Hyde Park."
Possibly addressed to the engraver C. Thurston Thompson, an acquaintance and correspondent of the Doyle family.
Possibly addressed to the engraver C. Thurston Thompson, an acquaintance and correspondent of the Doyle family.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Apologizing for his absence from a recent event on account of severe cold and providing a detailed description of the uniform worn by a lifeguardsman of 1815, with two small sketches to illustrate his account of the helmet and sabretache.
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