BIB_ID
436144
Accession number
MA 3315.14
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1842 December 25.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; illustrations ; 22.6 x 18.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated throughout with animals, people, and objects, including an Orientalist caricature of the Chinese ambassador. The first page is in the form of a public notice surrounded by goblins and puppets; a disheveled man stands before it.
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 throughout with animals, people, and objects, including an Orientalist caricature of the Chinese ambassador. The first page is in the form of a public notice surrounded by goblins and puppets; a disheveled man stands before it.
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
Announcing, in the form of a notice, that he won't have all his work done by that evening but that he will do his best; reflecting on Christmas activities; sharing news of various actors, musicians, and entertainers, including Margaret Hampton, Louis Jullien, Adelaide Kemble, and Isaac Van Amburgh; mentioning that the Chinese ambassador is coming to London; explaining, in the form of a mock-plea from a prisoner on trial, why he hasn't gotten very much of his Christmas work done and signing himself "your truly incorrigible Son."
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