BIB_ID
437100
Accession number
MA 14300.351
Creator
Rae, Robert, 1823-1900, sender.
Display Date
Glasgow, Scotland, 1859 March 18
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.9 x 13.3 cm
Notes
To "Dear Sir"; recipient may possibly be identified as Rose Blaze de Bury, who may have been corresponding with the sender under a male pseudonym.
Written on printed letterhead stationery: "The Commonwealth / a general family newspaper, / published every Saturday/ ... Office, 14 Maxwell Street, / Glasgow, [...] 185 [...]."
Letter incomplete: bottom portion of the sheet has been cut away affecting the first page of text and a line of printed letterhead text has been excised.
Written on printed letterhead stationery: "The Commonwealth / a general family newspaper, / published every Saturday/ ... Office, 14 Maxwell Street, / Glasgow, [...] 185 [...]."
Letter incomplete: bottom portion of the sheet has been cut away affecting the first page of text and a line of printed letterhead text has been excised.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing the recipient that both he and the editor (of The Commonwealth) were pleased with the contributions, but that "circumstances have recently occured in connection with the local press which make me desirous to discontinue them for the present."
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