BIB_ID
436156
Accession number
MA 3315.20
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 February 19?.
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 ; 23 x 19 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle dates the letter "Sunday Morning February 15th 1843," but Scott has determined that February 15th was a Wednesday. See note 1 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, p. 147.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of a boy yawning in bed; illustrated on p. 3 with the scene of the soldiers' departure referred to 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 dates the letter "Sunday Morning February 15th 1843," but Scott has determined that February 15th was a Wednesday. See note 1 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, p. 147.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of a boy yawning in bed; illustrated on p. 3 with the scene of the soldiers' departure referred to 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
Describing how difficult it is to get up early and leave the house in the wintertime; recounting a dialogue between three of the Doyle brothers early one morning; saying that he, Henry, and Charles saw several companies of soldiers departing from the train station on Thursday morning and describing the scene in detail.
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