BIB_ID
355897
Accession number
MA 702.48
Creator
Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902.
Display Date
1898 Mar. 16.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.9 cm
Notes
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
Commenting on landscaping at his house in Nice (Les Palmiers); saying that he would happily give Queen Victoria two of his trees, "but they could not be transplanted at this time of year"; discussing various pictures and watercolors, and making recommendations about which ones should hang in the rooms of Princess Beatrice and Princess Helena; sending his "respectful devotions" to Her Majesty and the Princesses.
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