BIB_ID
436201
Accession number
MA 3315.48
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 October 29.
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 ; 22.7 x 18.1 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on pp. 1-2 with portraits of himself hard at work, as well as the Punch figure; illustrated on p. 3 with the scene from the Norman Conquest 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.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated on pp. 1-2 with portraits of himself hard at work, as well as the Punch figure; illustrated on p. 3 with the scene from the Norman Conquest 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 all the work he has to do for Punch, for Christmas, and other projects, and how he will manage it by hopping from lithograph stone to woodblock to cartoon and so on; mentioning that a company of French child perfomers called "Les Enfans Castelli" will be performing tomorrow at Covent Garden Theatre, led by the dancer and director Étienne-Hughes Laurençon; writing about a scene from Wace's chronicle of the Norman Conquest that particularly appeals to him.
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