BIB_ID
436586
Accession number
MA 3315.75
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 18.7 cm
Notes
Location and date of writing inferred from contents of the letter.
Illustrated on page 1 with Henry and James asking for directions with a windmill in the distance and a group of men on horses; illustrated on page 2 with the Blues regiment and a horse going down during the charge.
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 Henry and James asking for directions with a windmill in the distance and a group of men on horses; illustrated on page 2 with the Blues regiment and a horse going down during the charge.
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 that he and James made to see the Blues (the Royal Horse Guards) inspected on Wimbledon Common; writing about how they got thoroughly lost but finally located the windmill on the common; stating that, in the end, they located the regiment and saw it perform some brilliant manuevers.
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