BIB_ID
196460
Accession number
MA 14388
Creator
Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903, sender.
Display Date
East Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, 1877 April 1
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.6 x 11.6 cm
Notes
Dated "Easter Eve" (Easter fell on April 1, 1877).
Embossed seal with crown and "Osborne" at head of sheet.
Embossed seal with crown and "Osborne" at head of sheet.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking him for his words of encouragement and stating that this "has been the most trying year of my life"; praising his current situation (at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight) which he describes as "most enchanting" after the "squalor of London."
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