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Letter from Henry Doyle, London, to John Doyle, between 1840 and 1845 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
436578
Accession number
MA 3315.67
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 ; 22.8 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Location and date of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 1 with 3 horses wearing Pictorial Times placards and 1 horse pulling a cart with a Pictorial Times advertisement; illustrated on at the bottom of page 1 with a man in a horse carriage labeled "Royal Circus"; illustrated on page 2 with a character from Tom Burke; illustrated on page 3 with the blind man sitting and playing the violin and violincello.
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
Discussing two curious advertisements he has seen recently for the Pictorial Times and the Royal Circus; discussing in detail the new number of Charles Lever's novel Tom Burke of "Ours"; writing about seeing a blind man playing a duet with a violin and violincello.