BIB_ID
311119
Accession number
MA 7800.69
Creator
Egg, Augustus Leopold, 1816-1863.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 13.5 cm
Notes
Bound in an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens (MA 7800, v. 6, fol. 53r); see collection-level record for more information.
Possible dating based on location of writing.
Recipient's name is illegible, but appears to read "Mr. L..."
Written from Ivy Cottage, Egg's home from about 1847-1853.
Possible dating based on location of writing.
Recipient's name is illegible, but appears to read "Mr. L..."
Written from Ivy Cottage, Egg's home from about 1847-1853.
Provenance
Albert Henry Wiggin; by descent to his daughter Marjorie Wiggin Prescott; her sale (Christie's, New York, 6 February 1981, lot 87); Frederick R. Koch.
Summary
Regretting the necessity of missing an appointment due to an earlier engagement.
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