BIB_ID
436142
Accession number
MA 3315.12
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1842 October 9.
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 18.9 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle gives both the ninth and the tenth of October as the date of writing. In The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, Scott notes that Sunday (when Doyle usually wrote his letters) fell on October 9th. See note 1, p. 101.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of a letter-writer at work; illustrated on p. 3 with an image of a wagon and horses.
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 gives both the ninth and the tenth of October as the date of writing. In The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, Scott notes that Sunday (when Doyle usually wrote his letters) fell on October 9th. See note 1, p. 101.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of a letter-writer at work; illustrated on p. 3 with an image of a wagon and horses.
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 scene outside his window: an overloaded wagon that could not, despite many hours of effort, get up and over a hill.
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