BIB_ID
436193
Accession number
MA 3315.42
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 August 20?.
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 ; 18.2 x 11.4 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Doyle gives the date of writing as "Sunday Morning August 1843." Scott proposes that it was written on the 20th. See full citation in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of himself looking anxiously over a piece of paper; illustrated on pp. 2-3 with a drawing of himself being pursued by a horseman on a charger.
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 August 1843." Scott proposes that it was written on the 20th. See full citation in The Illustrated Letters of Richard Doyle to His Father.
Illustrated on p. 1 with a sketch of himself looking anxiously over a piece of paper; illustrated on pp. 2-3 with a drawing of himself being pursued by a horseman on a charger.
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
Confessing that he has not yet begun his weekly letter and recounting an internal dialogue on this subject.
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