BIB_ID
196224
Accession number
MA 14090
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1883 May 4.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.4 cm + with envelope.
Notes
Stamped and postmarked envelope reads: Mrs. Champneys / 6. Great Cumberland Place / Hyde Park.
Written from: 7. Finborough Rd.
Addressed to "Mrs. Champneys"; probably Virginia Julian Champney, who resided with her husband, Francis Henry Champneys, at Great Cumberland Place during this period.
Written from: 7. Finborough Rd.
Addressed to "Mrs. Champneys"; probably Virginia Julian Champney, who resided with her husband, Francis Henry Champneys, at Great Cumberland Place during this period.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Returning a ticket to a concert at Dudley House and explaining that he is unable to attend owing to his poor health ("The fact is almost ever since we met at Poynter's studio I have been the victim of a sharp cold of the bronchial kind."); noting that he had just enough time to send in his drawings to the Grosvenor Gallery, before he became ill and that he has been confined to his room ever since; sending his regrets at hearing that her mother has sprained her hand, and remarking that, having seen "sad news in the papers", he did not expect to see her sister-in-law, but that he hopes that "visits to my little paintings room are only postponed."
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