BIB_ID
436202
Accession number
MA 3315.49
Creator
Doyle, Richard, 1824-1883.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 November 12.
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 18.6 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Date of writing from the letter.
Illustrated throughout with scenes from the story of Macaire and the dog.
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 throughout with scenes from the story of Macaire and the dog.
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 that fiction is nothing compared to reality and the histories of England and France are full of "the most romantic incidents"; adding that he thinks the history of France is "the most fertile, not, of course, as to grand historical subjects, but in those interesting picturesque and poetical passages, so delightful to meet, such as Joan of Arc"; recounting the story of the criminal Robert Macaire and the dog of Montargis, as related in Bernard de Montfaucon's Les monuments de la monarchie française.
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