BIB_ID
436584
Accession number
MA 3315.73
Creator
Doyle, Henry Edward, 1827-1892, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1843 August.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund with the special assistance of Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Page, 1974.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) : illustrations ; 22.7 x 19 cm
Notes
Location and date of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
See MA 3315.41 for Richard's account of this event.
Dated "Sunday August the something."
Illustrated on page 1 with the orator and an antagonist conversing; illustrated on page 2 with a large group of people falling down a hill; illustrated on page 3 with a large crowd under umbrellas in the rain gazing at Father Mathew speaking on scaffolding.
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.
See MA 3315.41 for Richard's account of this event.
Dated "Sunday August the something."
Illustrated on page 1 with the orator and an antagonist conversing; illustrated on page 2 with a large group of people falling down a hill; illustrated on page 3 with a large crowd under umbrellas in the rain gazing at Father Mathew speaking on scaffolding.
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 Father Mathew's temperance meeting; mentioning discussions of tobacco smoking, teetotalism, and hydropathy; describing a lively conversation between an orator and an antagonist; describing how, when Father Mathew arrived, the mass of people gathered to see him fell down a steep hill and got jumbled up with the band and policemen; saying that, once the crowd got on flat ground, Father Mathew mounted some scaffolding to speak and everyone gathered around under umbrellas.
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