BIB_ID
249928
Accession number
MA 6378
Creator
Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925.
Display Date
London, undated.
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The letter is addressed to a "Stokes" or "Stoker."
Furniss gives only "Friday" for the date of writing.
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "23, St Edmund's Terrace, / Regent's Park. / N.W."
With an illustration on the first page, possibly a self-portrait, of a man smoking and carrying golf clubs.
This item is part of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection. The large collection includes printed books, letters, manuscripts, puzzles and games, personal effects and ephemera, which have been cataloged separately.
Removed from the "Carrolliana" album (MA 6347) assembled by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., folio 40.
Furniss gives only "Friday" for the date of writing.
On stationery with embossed letterhead: "23, St Edmund's Terrace, / Regent's Park. / N.W."
With an illustration on the first page, possibly a self-portrait, of a man smoking and carrying golf clubs.
This item is part of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection. The large collection includes printed books, letters, manuscripts, puzzles and games, personal effects and ephemera, which have been cataloged separately.
Removed from the "Carrolliana" album (MA 6347) assembled by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., folio 40.
Provenance
From the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll collection; gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Summary
Saying that he received his correspondent's note "just as I was leaving town a'golfing"; adding that he had intended to write to set up an appointment, but now that he has returned to the city, he will simply stop by the theater tonight, in the hopes that his correspondent can spare two minutes to discuss a manuscript; asking for tickets for his son and daughter for that evening's production of Coriolanus; explaining that his wife and the rest of his family are away, and his son and daughter are "alone with me in town."
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