BIB_ID
436161
Accession number
MA 3315.25
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 March 26?.
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 18.8 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle gives the date of writing as "Sunday Morning March 27th 1843," but Scott notes that the 27th was a Monday. See note 1 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, p. 174.
Illustrated with sketches of the gardens of the Zoological Society, of animals, and the Doyle brothers. The fourth page contains a drawing of Jenny the orangutan at tea-time.
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 the date of writing as "Sunday Morning March 27th 1843," but Scott notes that the 27th was a Monday. See note 1 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, p. 174.
Illustrated with sketches of the gardens of the Zoological Society, of animals, and the Doyle brothers. The fourth page contains a drawing of Jenny the orangutan at tea-time.
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
Writing about a visit that he, Henry, and Charles made to the menagerie in Regents Park; describing in detail how one of the orangutans, Jenny, took tea.
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