BIB_ID
294427
Accession number
MA 860.13
Creator
FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883.
Display Date
[1881] Jan. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 22 letters from Edward FitzGerald to Horace Basham (MA 860.1-14, .16-23) and 1 letter from FitzGerald to Arthur Basham (MA 860.15). Items are described individually; see collection record (MA 860.1-23) for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.
Summary
Thanking him for New Year's wishes and sending hearty returns for 1881. Enclosing (not present) a postal order, asking Basham to disburse it to a mutual acquaintance and to use it to pay a bill. Mentioning mutual acquaintances and discussing the short and gloomy winter days.
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