BIB_ID
418335
Accession number
MA 14104
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, sender.
Display Date
England, 1857? October 13.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.2 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Dated "Octr. 13th"; year of writing suggested by accompanying correspondence (see MA 1402-14105).
Signed with Doyle's "Dicky bird", dabbing its eyes with a handkerchief, over his autograph.
Addressed to "Dear Mrs. Phillips"; probably the poet Susan K. Phillips, wife of the portrait painter Henry Wyndham Phillips, an associate of Richard Doyle's, who maintained a residence at Church Meadow in Sydenham during this time period.
Signed with Doyle's "Dicky bird", dabbing its eyes with a handkerchief, over his autograph.
Addressed to "Dear Mrs. Phillips"; probably the poet Susan K. Phillips, wife of the portrait painter Henry Wyndham Phillips, an associate of Richard Doyle's, who maintained a residence at Church Meadow in Sydenham during this time period.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Regretting that he is unable to accept a recent invitation to visit them ("Oh me! That it should so have fallen out, of all days of the year, on that day. In a desponding state)."
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