BIB_ID
355395
Accession number
MA 701.46
Creator
Holmes, Richard R. (Richard Rivington), 1835-1911.
Display Date
1899 Feb. 14.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (2 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
Asking that they send, on approval, the autographs of Prince Albert, the Duke of Kent, Henry VII, Henrietta Maria, and Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia; asking that they send the Chrysostom again saying that his "only trouble about it was that I found it rather beyond my means at the time."
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