Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Sillarsville, to Mrs. May Byron, 1935 August 8.

BIB_ID
408222
Accession number
MA 9176.34
Creator
Sillars, Angus, 1855-1939
Display Date
1935 August 8.
Credit line
Gift of Jane Stedman, 1972.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.8 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Written from "Sillarsvile / Co. Bonaventure, Que., / Canada."
Provenance
Gift of Jane Stedman, 1972.
Summary
Writing, at length and in detail, about her ballad "Foulweather Jack" and its relation to the area in Quebec which was his birthplace and which he is now visiting; enclosing photographs and newspaper clippings; enclosing an "...account of the last effort of France to retain Canada;" relating the details of the battle in which the merchant ship 'Bienfaisant' sank on the banks of the Restigouche River by the British Navy under the command of John Byron, "Foulweather Jack;" saying "This was the last naval battle of the Seven Years' War in North American waters;" relating the recent discovery of a "...portion of an old French man-o-war. Doubtless it was Le Bienfaisant as it was found near where that ship was sunk;" asking if she has read "Scouting on Two Continents" by Major Burnham; recommending it to her as Burnham quotes from May Byron's poem "The Adventurers" at the beginning of the book..