BIB_ID
436568
Accession number
MA 3315.57
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 March 25.
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 ; 22.6 x 18.8 cm
Notes
See MA 3315.24 for Richard Doyle's account of the same excursion.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 1 with men on horses, three men walking arm in arm, and three men standing and talking; illustrated on page 2 with the Doyle brothers on a boat in the fog; illustrated on page 3 with three men in hats: one sitting, one standing, and one standing with his arm raised.
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.
High reserve.
Location of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 1 with men on horses, three men walking arm in arm, and three men standing and talking; illustrated on page 2 with the Doyle brothers on a boat in the fog; illustrated on page 3 with three men in hats: one sitting, one standing, and one standing with his arm raised.
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.
High reserve.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Describing an excursion with his brothers to Woolwich to see the Duke of Wellington inspect the 7th Dragoon Guards; discussing the boat trip on the Thames in particular; describing the scenery that they passed; writing about nearly running into a steamboat in the fog.
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