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Letter from Richard Doyle, London, to Susan K. Phillips, 1857? March 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
196236
Accession number
MA 14102
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1857? March 8.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 18.2 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Written from the Stafford Club.
Addressed to "Dear Mrs. Phillips"; probably the poet Susan K. Phillips, wife of the portrait painter Henry Wyndham Phillips, an associate of Richard Doyle's, who maintained a residence at Church Meadow in Sydenham during this time period.
On paper watermarked "1856"; the Phillips's were married in September of 1856, which would suggest 1857 as a probable year of writing.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Regretting that he will be unable to keep his engagement to visit them at Sydenham owing to a prior commitment.