Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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

BIB_ID
436580
Accession number
MA 3315.69
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 ; 22.5 x 18.3 cm
Notes
Location and date of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on pp. 1-3 with scenes described 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.
High reserve.
Provenance
Richard Doyle; Arthur Conan Doyle; Adrian Conan Doyle. Purchased from House of El Dieff, 1974.
Summary
Talking about going to see a photographic exhibtion in a shop on Parliament Street; describing seeing the Duke of Wellington transacting business at the War Office and the Duke's unsteady departure through the crowd that has followed him.