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Letter from Richard Doyle, London, to John Doyle, 1843 January 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
436146
Accession number
MA 3315.16
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 January 8.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; illustrations ; 22.9 x 18.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle lists the date of writing as "Sunday January 7th 1843," but Scott notes Sunday fell on the 8th. See note 1, p. 128 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated throughout with street scenes. On the third page, Doyle has drawn a portrait of himself being escorted by two lions in gentlemanly attire.
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 doesn't understand artists who have trouble finding subjects to draw, because a walk down Oxford Street supplies myriad possiblities; referring to the work of the caricaturists George Cruikshank and Jean Grandville; calling his father's attention to the first issue of The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature.