BIB_ID
435087
Accession number
MA 3315.6
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1842 August 21.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; illustrations ; 23.3 x 19.4 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of a group; illustrated on p. 3 with a drawing of a crowd of people reading a posted notice and a portrait of himself face to face with a beast.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father, John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of a group; illustrated on p. 3 with a drawing of a crowd of people reading a posted notice and a portrait of himself face to face with a beast.
Part of a large collection of letters from Richard Doyle (51 items), Henry Edward Doyle (25 items), and Charles Altamont Doyle (3 items) to their father, John Doyle. See collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Describing the Chartist assemblies and the general unrest in London in mid-August 1842; describing losing his color box to a pickpocket in the crowds; referring to the Doyle family's imminent departure for Blackheath; giving the full text of a notice banning assemblies issued by the Lord Mayor and posted in multiple places around the city.
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