BIB_ID
422392
Accession number
MA 4452.7
Creator
Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896.
Display Date
Dusseldorf, Germany, 1859.
Credit line
Purchased, 1969.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.0 x 14.4 cm
Notes
Written "Wednesday Evening / 84 Schadow Strasse."
Year of writing inferred from the illustration in the letter.
With a pen-and-ink illustration on the final page of a group of ladies dressed in large overcoats, large hats and veils and a gentleman, striding at the front of the group, dressed in a suit and top hat and carrying two large two umbrellas, approaching a street corner in Dusseldorf where a uniformed guard is standing at his post. du Maurier has written beneath the illustration "Unusual meteorological appearance in Casermen Strasse, Dusseldorf - (23 m, 7 sec'ds past 3, PM, on the 18th October '59 - wind SSW - Barometer changeable. Therm cent. 15 1/4 - Cloudy & warm - no moon!"
Year of writing inferred from the illustration in the letter.
With a pen-and-ink illustration on the final page of a group of ladies dressed in large overcoats, large hats and veils and a gentleman, striding at the front of the group, dressed in a suit and top hat and carrying two large two umbrellas, approaching a street corner in Dusseldorf where a uniformed guard is standing at his post. du Maurier has written beneath the illustration "Unusual meteorological appearance in Casermen Strasse, Dusseldorf - (23 m, 7 sec'ds past 3, PM, on the 18th October '59 - wind SSW - Barometer changeable. Therm cent. 15 1/4 - Cloudy & warm - no moon!"
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1969.
Summary
Acknowledging receipt of her note and promising "...to perform your little commissions with great pleasure and have them forwarded in the way you desire (a grocers lady can have no objection to sending a pineapple dress with the other 'comestibles) - The shawl and dress will both be ready by to-morrow evening, if the word of the dyer who seems rather a disreputable 'party' can be depended upon. I saw a large party of ladies wandering about Dusseldorf at the time you mention and with an unmistakably Grafrath appearance about their veils & headgear;" adding that his friend Best is returned and they will likely be in Grafrath together the following week; sending his regards to Mr. Fortescue and his mother's regards to her.
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