BIB_ID
373650
Accession number
MA 5161.10
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898.
Display Date
undated [after 1875].
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 15.1 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Mrs. Holman Hunt"; this is probably Edith, William Holman Hunt's second wife. They were married in Nov. 1875.
On letterhead stationery of "The Grange, / West Kensington, / W."
Part of a collection of thirteen autograph letters signed from Edward Burne-Jones to William Holman Hunt and two autograph letters signed from Burne-Jones to Edith Holman Hunt. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 5161.1-15).
On letterhead stationery of "The Grange, / West Kensington, / W."
Part of a collection of thirteen autograph letters signed from Edward Burne-Jones to William Holman Hunt and two autograph letters signed from Burne-Jones to Edith Holman Hunt. Letters in the collection are described in individual records (MA 5161.1-15).
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 15 Dec. 1970, lot 878); Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Declining an invitation because he is "off today to join them at Rottingdean"; complaining that he has done no work for a month; adding that "any of Holman's cast off clothes will be very welcome."
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