BIB_ID
436183
Accession number
MA 3315.33
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 May 21.
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) ; color illustrations ; 23 x 19 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a large border; illustrated on p. 3 with a sketch of the flying machine. Doyle uses watercolors throughout.
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 on p. 1 with a large border; illustrated on p. 3 with a sketch of the flying machine. Doyle uses watercolors throughout.
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
Referring to projects he has underway, including his "Nonsense"; writing at length about the work of the painter Sir Francis Grant; describing an advertisement he saw in Fleet Street for a new flying machine.
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