BIB_ID
196546
Accession number
MA 14949
Creator
Fraser, Alexander, 1786-1865, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.6 x 11.5 cm
Notes
Postmarked with seal; address panel: Mr. Thos. MacDonald / 25 Brydges Street / Strand.
Dated "Thursday Morning / 7 o'clock".
Date from postmark; place of writing inferred from content.
Formerly part of a collection of artist's letter in the Gordon Ray collection, cataloged separately and integrated into the Unbound Ray manuscript collection.
Dated "Thursday Morning / 7 o'clock".
Date from postmark; place of writing inferred from content.
Formerly part of a collection of artist's letter in the Gordon Ray collection, cataloged separately and integrated into the Unbound Ray manuscript collection.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing to engraver, printseller, and framer Thomas Macdonald, and informing him that he called on him last "night and the night before" as Mr. (David) Wilkie wants "the Drawing of the Highlander before the Justice and requested me to bring it this morning"; recommending that Macdonald take it to Wilkie that day, as "I think he wants to do a picture from it"; asking to have the portrait of his wife returned to him as he "cannot think of it being out of my own house", adding that he will "allow the sketch" and that he cares "but little for the frame only give me my picture in the course of this week or I will never do any thing more for you."
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