BIB_ID
418327
Accession number
MA 14099
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, sender.
Display Date
England, 1847?
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 14.7 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence, Disraeli successfully stood for the Buckinghamshire constituency in 1847.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Declining to provide a cartoon (for Punch) on the "Morpeth subject" (probably a reference to George William Frederick Howard, Viscount Morpeth and Earl of Carlisle), citing "private reasons"; agreeing to create an initial and stating that "if Mr. Swain will send at nine in the morning a cut will be ready 'A contrast between the Member for Bucks as was (John Hampden), and the member as is to be (Mr. D'Israeli).'"
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