BIB_ID
436576
Accession number
MA 3315.65
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, between 1840 and 1845.
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 ; 20 x 12.8 cm
Notes
Location and date of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 1 with a group of bears eating a bear keeper; illustrated on page 2 with the two gentlemen and the blacksmith confronting each other on the road; illustrated on page 3 with Dick, Captain Mayne, and another man talking in front of a door with a foot kicking it closed.
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.
Illustrated on page 1 with a group of bears eating a bear keeper; illustrated on page 2 with the two gentlemen and the blacksmith confronting each other on the road; illustrated on page 3 with Dick, Captain Mayne, and another man talking in front of a door with a foot kicking it closed.
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
Recounting an anecdote about bears and a bear keeper told to him by Mr. Creaser; sharing a story about two gentlemen and a blacksmith who refused to give way to each other on the new road; saying that his brother Richard (called Dick) and Captain Mayne were discussing "the natives of South Australia" and their ability to use their feet like their hands when he saw an example of this in action, as someone closed a door using only their foot.
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