BIB_ID
355369
Accession number
MA 701.36
Creator
Holmes, Richard R. (Richard Rivington), 1835-1911.
Display Date
1898 Feb. 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
On the verso, there appears to be a draft, in an unknown hand, of the note from Pearson & Co. to Queen Victoria that would accompany the autographs.
Part of a collection of letters from Richard Holmes to Pearson & Company. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Sir Fleetwood Edwards was the Keeper of the Privy Purse to Queen Victoria from 1895-1901.
Written on the embossed stationery of "The Athenæum, / Pall Mall, S.W;" the Club name has been crossed through and above it Holmes has written "Royal Library / Windsor."
Part of a collection of letters from Richard Holmes to Pearson & Company. Letters have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Sir Fleetwood Edwards was the Keeper of the Privy Purse to Queen Victoria from 1895-1901.
Written on the embossed stationery of "The Athenæum, / Pall Mall, S.W;" the Club name has been crossed through and above it Holmes has written "Royal Library / Windsor."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Asking that they send the autographs to "Lt. Col. the Right Honourable / Sir F. Edwards / K.C.B. / Osborne / Isle of Wight / On Approval."
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