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 : place of writing not specified, to [George] Cruikshank, [not before 1851]

BIB_ID
410602
Accession number
MA 13927
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Display Date
[not before 1851]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) : illustrations ; 18.2 x 11.1 cm
Notes
On stationery watermarked "1851".
Signed "A. Blewitt", possibly Anne Blewitt, the wife of English writer and secretary of the Royal Literary Fund, Octavian Blewitt, and author of The Rose and the Lily (London : Chatto & Windus,1877), with a frontispiece illustration by Cruikshank.
With notes and sketches by executed by Cruikshank in ink on page 4 of the letter.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Returning a ticket to him for an unspecified event, explaining that, while "the front of the house would do perfectly", she could not ask her cousin, "Miss Delepresse", to go up stairs, and suggesting that the ticket be given to "Mr. Keen" instead.