BIB_ID
423732
Accession number
MA 2092.12
Creator
Field, Michael.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1909 March.
Credit line
Gift of H. Bradley Martin, 1960.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 10.0 x 13.3 cm
Notes
Housed with the printed "Order of the Day" from the "Retreat / in the / Convent of the Assumption / Kensington Square, / During Passion Week of 19--" and a large envelope on which Miss Bradley has written the four lines of names which are identified in Dr. Bickle's footnote 2 to this letter cited below and listed in the note to this letter.
Date of writing from footnote 1 to the published item cited below in which Dr. Sharon Bickle dates the clipping "...from the Retreat at the Convent of the Assumption, Mar. 1909" and adds in footnote 2 with respect to the identity of the man in the clipping, "This odd fancy corresponds with a note on the back of the 'Order of the Day' for the Retreat at the Convent of the Assumption, Kensington Square : 'Henry Le Strige Amice / Melcom Moffat Pertinax Linnet / Talla Munierie, Mellinhail, Avalon, / Yulier, Merle, Ermenonville, Lapper."
This item is part of a collection of correspondence by and to Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper dating from 1888 to 1910. See the collection record for more information (MA 2092.1-48).
Date of writing from footnote 1 to the published item cited below in which Dr. Sharon Bickle dates the clipping "...from the Retreat at the Convent of the Assumption, Mar. 1909" and adds in footnote 2 with respect to the identity of the man in the clipping, "This odd fancy corresponds with a note on the back of the 'Order of the Day' for the Retreat at the Convent of the Assumption, Kensington Square : 'Henry Le Strige Amice / Melcom Moffat Pertinax Linnet / Talla Munierie, Mellinhail, Avalon, / Yulier, Merle, Ermenonville, Lapper."
This item is part of a collection of correspondence by and to Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper dating from 1888 to 1910. See the collection record for more information (MA 2092.1-48).
Provenance
Gift of H. Bradley Martin, 1960.
Summary
Being annotations written around a newspaper illustration of a man sitting at a table, with his right hand around a tall glass which rests on the table and holding what appears to be a thin sandwich in left hand; saying "Mr. Henry Le Strige / Bramber Amice / "eating & drinking" / scale of eating / 60 sandwiches / an hour, / without ceasing!"; adding, on the verso "Don't keep this / It's a moment's / ornament."
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