BIB_ID
433178
Accession number
MA 409.5
Creator
Thorpe, Thomas, -1874, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1839 June 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 25 x 19.9 cm
Notes
Written from "178 Piccadilly London."
Address panel with postmark "George Soaper Esq / Guildford / Surrey."
Address panel with postmark "George Soaper Esq / Guildford / Surrey."
Provenance
Collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1905.
Summary
Responding that the letter of Sir Philip Sidney did not come from Penshurst and refers to his sale catalog; detailing the provenance and declaring the letter's authenticity.
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