BIB_ID
432998
Accession number
MA 23479.1
Creator
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903.
Display Date
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1875 April 8.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.6 x 12.9 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with postage stamp and postmarks to "Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. / 15 Waterloo Place." The last line of the address is glued into the paper wrapper.
Set inside an orange paper wrapper with a note on the inside "cheque for £9.9 sent / April 13th 1875" and signed with the initials "JP."
Housed with an additional letter from Henley to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., dated December 31, 1880 (MA 23479.2).
Written from "Surgical Ward 4 Private / Royal Infirmary / Edinburgh."
Set inside an orange paper wrapper with a note on the inside "cheque for £9.9 sent / April 13th 1875" and signed with the initials "JP."
Housed with an additional letter from Henley to Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., dated December 31, 1880 (MA 23479.2).
Written from "Surgical Ward 4 Private / Royal Infirmary / Edinburgh."
Summary
Saying "I am requested by Mr. Stephen to ask payment for you for a series of Hospital Sonnets accepted by him for the 'Cornhill'. I shall be glad if you will add this to that for the Song for the same periodical, which I am given to understand you will presently send me. My address during this week & the next will be as above. After that, it is somewhat uncertain."
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