BIB_ID
377486
Accession number
MA 1293.14
Creator
Wildman, Thomas, 1787-1859.
Display Date
18[34?] Sept. 27.
Credit line
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 18.7 cm
Notes
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
The last two numbers of the year are illegible; the numbers may read "34," and the trial of Capt. Wathen that Wildman mentions on p. [3] took place in 1834.
The last two numbers of the year are illegible; the numbers may read "34," and the trial of Capt. Wathen that Wildman mentions on p. [3] took place in 1834.
Provenance
Kaye Dowland.
Summary
Thanking him for taking the trouble to pursue an enquiry requested by Captain Wathen; sending him "a bundle of Franks amongst which are two Royal ones"; adding, "I should think that of the King of the Belgians may perhaps be rare"; mentioning the trial of Captain [Augustus?] Wathen.
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