BIB_ID
284797
Accession number
MA 741.43
Creator
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.
Display Date
1868.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 9.9 x 11.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of a bound collection of 56 letters and notes from Thomas Carlyle, 7 signed receipts, 4 prints, and a photograph; items in the collection are described individually (MA 741.1-68).
The envelope reads in an unknown hand: "Mr. Carlyle's autos. (7 specimens) / for the Gral[?] / Photo: 19 June 1855 / Get from Mr. Tait the date of this / year and day." The photo referred to is probably MA 741.44. The verso of the envelope has a Chapman and Hall seal.
The letter is dated "Saturday" and "1868."
The envelope reads in an unknown hand: "Mr. Carlyle's autos. (7 specimens) / for the Gral[?] / Photo: 19 June 1855 / Get from Mr. Tait the date of this / year and day." The photo referred to is probably MA 741.44. The verso of the envelope has a Chapman and Hall seal.
The letter is dated "Saturday" and "1868."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913 from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co.
Summary
Noting that he has seen Brown's finished engraving; sending his attempts at autographs to accompany the Brown engraving and a second engraving that is not ready yet
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