BIB_ID
436188
Accession number
MA 3315.37
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 July 9?.
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 ; 22.5 x 18.3 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle lists the date of writing as "Sunday Morning July the 8th 1843," but Scott notes that Sunday fell on July 9th. See note 2 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, p. 237.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a drawing of a military review; illustrated on pp. 2-3 with sketches of gentlemen in the park and a small portrait of the Duke of Wellington.
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 lists the date of writing as "Sunday Morning July the 8th 1843," but Scott notes that Sunday fell on July 9th. See note 2 in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father, p. 237.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a drawing of a military review; illustrated on pp. 2-3 with sketches of gentlemen in the park and a small portrait of the Duke of Wellington.
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
Lamenting the disorderly way that military reviews are organized and publicized in London; explaining that he and other family members attempted to attend a military review in Hyde Park, only to discover that it had been moved to St. James' Park and that almost all the other announcements made about it in the press had been wrong; listing the official attendees, including Leopold I, King of the Belgians, Prince Reuss, Prince Albert, the Duke of Wellington, and others; describing an appearance made by the Queen on a palace balcony and the crowd cheering and escorting Wellington all the way home to Apsley House.
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