BIB_ID
355394
Accession number
MA 701.45
Creator
Holmes, Richard R. (Richard Rivington), 1835-1911.
Display Date
1899 Feb. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.6 cm
Notes
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.
Written on mourning paper.
Written on mourning paper.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Pearson in 1910.
Summary
Informing them that he has sent a list of autographs to Osborne, that he is sending bills for payment and asking that they provide a separate invoice for the James I "Counterblaste" and the Montaigne; saying he has returned the Chrysostom and apologizing for not being able to keep it; returning the letters of George III's illness and the James I; apologizing for keeping them for so long but his "severe illness prevented me from attending to many things.
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