BIB_ID
417471
Accession number
MA 9801.3
Creator
Gill, William Fearing, 1844-1917.
Display Date
Boston, Massachusetts, 1874 February 16.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.3 x 13.7 cm
Notes
Part of a small collection five items including signatures, menus and an invitation. See MA 9801.1, MA 9801.2, MA 9801.4 and MA 9801.5.
Hand-painted floral border around the upper half and a floral spray painted at the end of the menu with a silk tassle attached at the bottom.
Tied at the top onto a card with a thin gray silk braid with a tassle on the end. The bottom of the invitation is sewn to the bottom of the card with a small knot. The card is folded in half, with Wilkie Collins' monogram, set in a circle with his name beneath it, printed on the front cover and his monogram in a circle printed on the back.
Hand-painted floral border around the upper half and a floral spray painted at the end of the menu with a silk tassle attached at the bottom.
Tied at the top onto a card with a thin gray silk braid with a tassle on the end. The bottom of the invitation is sewn to the bottom of the card with a small knot. The card is folded in half, with Wilkie Collins' monogram, set in a circle with his name beneath it, printed on the front cover and his monogram in a circle printed on the back.
Summary
Being an invitation to a "Complimentary Banquet / to / Wilkie Collins / tendered by / William F. Gill, / St. James' Hotel, Boston, Feb. 16, 1874 / Wilkie Collins / Henry W. Longfellow. Josiah Quincy / John G. Whittier. / Samuel L. Clemens. / O.W. Holmes. / T.W. Higginson. / Henry Wilson. / E.P. Whipple;" following with the full menu and wines.
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