BIB_ID
339091
Accession number
MA 3315.54
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1842 February.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) : illustrations ; 22.8 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Dated "Sunday February something."
Address panel simply to "John Doyle Esq."
High reserve.
Illustrated on p. 1 and 2 with pen-and-ink drawings of men working on the ice and illustrated on p. 3 with sketches of him hurriedly getting ready in the morning.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing inferred from collection dates.
Written from 17 Cambridge Terrace.
Address panel simply to "John Doyle Esq."
High reserve.
Illustrated on p. 1 and 2 with pen-and-ink drawings of men working on the ice and illustrated on p. 3 with sketches of him hurriedly getting ready in the morning.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing inferred from collection dates.
Written from 17 Cambridge Terrace.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Describing an early morning outing with Charles during which they watched a gang of men clearing and working on the iced-over river and relating an incident concerning a young man who insisted on putting his life in danger by excessively working a crack in the ice with an axe. With a postscript remarking that he and Charles have been out of the house before seven o'clock every morning, except possibly for one, in the past week.
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