BIB_ID
355504
Accession number
MA 702.35
Creator
Gibson, Walter Matthew.
Display Date
1901 Jan. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Docketed.
On mourning stationery with letterhead of the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace.
Part of a collection of letters related to Queen Victoria's foreign journeys (MA 702). Letters are described in individual records; see MA 702 for more information.
On mourning stationery with letterhead of the Privy Purse Office, Buckingham Palace.
Part of a collection of letters related to Queen Victoria's foreign journeys (MA 702). Letters are described in individual records; see MA 702 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson, 1910.
Summary
Sending an enclosure that he opened by mistake; noting that Sir Fleetwood cannot attend to any money matters right now so payment for a carriage must wait; alluding to Queen Victoria's declining health and saying, "how terribly sad it all is."
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