BIB_ID
436137
Accession number
MA 3315.10
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1842 September 28?.
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 ; 22.5 x 18.8 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle has listed the date of writing as "Wednesday 27th September 1842," but Scott notes that Wednesday fell on the 28th. See note 1, p. 91 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated on p. 1 with an elaborate border; illustrated on pp. 2-3 with depictions of the story Doyle recounts in the letter.
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.
Doyle has listed the date of writing as "Wednesday 27th September 1842," but Scott notes that Wednesday fell on the 28th. See note 1, p. 91 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated on p. 1 with an elaborate border; illustrated on pp. 2-3 with depictions of the story Doyle recounts in the letter.
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
Saying that he read Sir Walter Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft last week; commenting on Scott's interest in the supernatural; recounting an anecdote from the book about a young man pursued by dancing spirits.
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