BIB_ID
288997
Accession number
MA 4981.45
Creator
Bewick, Jane.
Display Date
1875 June 26.
Credit line
Gift of Kenneth A. Lohf, 1995.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Part of an album of drawings, letters, engravings, and photographs compiled by Joseph Crawhall. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 4981 for more information.
The verso of the letter contains a note from Joseph Crawhall: "June 28 / 75, Shall be glad to act with Barnes."
With postmark and stamp.
The verso of the letter contains a note from Joseph Crawhall: "June 28 / 75, Shall be glad to act with Barnes."
With postmark and stamp.
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 23 May 1972, lot 416); Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Explaining that she and her sister tried to call on him but found the house shut up; asking "the favour of [his] consent to be Executor to the will of the survivor"; noting that they also asked Mr. W. Barnes, a banker in Durham, to act as executor.
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