BIB_ID
286231
Accession number
MA 564.1
Creator
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
Display Date
1857 December 22 and [1857] December 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (22 pages) ; 21 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from Bryant's "Letters of a Traveller. Second Series." Collection consists of letters 21, 22, 23 and one page of 24, which are described in individual records (MA 564.1-3).
Letters 21 and 22 are written on one continuous set of pages; Letter 21 ends midway through page 11, and Letter 22 begins on the same page.
Letter 22 is dated Marseilles, 29 December 1858, but was actually written in 1857. Date was corrected in the 1859 printed edition.
Letters 21 and 22 are written on one continuous set of pages; Letter 21 ends midway through page 11, and Letter 22 begins on the same page.
Letter 22 is dated Marseilles, 29 December 1858, but was actually written in 1857. Date was corrected in the 1859 printed edition.
Provenance
Stephen Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
Describing Oran, Algiers, and surrounding villages. Written on the Steamer Normandie, off Majorca.
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