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Letter from Richard Doyle, London, to Jane Octavia Brookfield, 1854 January 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
196239
Accession number
MA 14086
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, sender.
Display Date
1854 January 28 :
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Dated "Saturday Janr 28."
Year of publication suggested by internal evidence: Doyle's book, The foreign tour of Mssrs. Brown, Jones, and Robinson, was published by Bradbury & Evans in 1854; it may also be noted that January 28 fell on a Saturday in that year.
Written from "17 Cambridge Terrace, / Hyde Park."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Sending her a copy of his The foreign tour of Messrs. Brown, Jones, and Robinson, and remarking that he had intended to send her a copy of the first edition, but public demand for the book has made the first edition difficult to obtain.