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 Ed. Courage? to Léon Leenhoff?, 1884 December 26 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
445513
Accession number
MA 3950.3:82
Creator
Courage, Ed.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, 1884 December 26.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard, 1974.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
The name of the writer is unclear.
The banquet was held at the Père Lathuille on January 5, 1885.
Forms part of the Tabarant collection, papers related to the artist Édouard Manet.
Provenance
From the collection of Adolphe Tabarant (1863-1950); by descent to his daughter Lucienne Tabarant and sold by her to Mina Curtiss (1896-1985) in 1960; purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles Engelhard and children in memory of Mr. Charles Engelhard in 1974.
Summary
Thanking him for the invitation to the memorial banquet in honor of Manet, but writing that the state of his health does not permit him to attend.