BIB_ID
354925
Accession number
MA 700.12
Display Date
1870 Oct. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 20.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mr. Alfred Waetzig / 50 Gloucester Street / Pimlico / Londres," with "par ballon-monté" written above the address. Letters were flown out of Paris by hot air balloon during the Siege of Paris.
Located on the verso of leaf 35.
Part of an album of autographs, letters, pictures, and ephemera collected by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, a servant of Queen Victoria. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 700 for more information.
The letter appears to be signed "P. Mary."
With postmark, stamp, and trace of a seal.
Located on the verso of leaf 35.
Part of an album of autographs, letters, pictures, and ephemera collected by Mrs. G.A. Waetzig, a servant of Queen Victoria. Select items in the album are described in individual records. See MA 700 for more information.
The letter appears to be signed "P. Mary."
With postmark, stamp, and trace of a seal.
Provenance
Mrs. G.A. Waetzig; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Summary
Describing the situation in Paris since the start of the Siege of Paris; noting that all communications are being intercepted, and hoping that this letter will reach him by balloon; reporting that her son is fatigued by his "night duty at the ramparts and fortifications."
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