BIB_ID
418356
Accession number
MA 14111
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1849 October.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 13.6 x 8.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Dated "Tuesday night."
Month and year of writing from postmark.
Written from: 17 Cambridge Terrace Hyde Park.
Probably in reference to one of Doyle's drawings for Mrs. Hervey's Juvenile Calender and Zodiac of Flowers, published by Hall and Virtue in 1850.
Month and year of writing from postmark.
Written from: 17 Cambridge Terrace Hyde Park.
Probably in reference to one of Doyle's drawings for Mrs. Hervey's Juvenile Calender and Zodiac of Flowers, published by Hall and Virtue in 1850.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Asking Thompson to send him a woodblock for an illustration Doyle has been asked to do for "the 'Book of months' which my brother James spoke to you about a day or two ago", and adding that, "the publisher, Arthur Hall, is impatient and I am to begin when the block is ready for me."
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