BIB_ID
446474
Accession number
MA 14522
Creator
Harvey, William, 1796-1866, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1857 September 15
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient uncertain and suggested by context and related correspondence.
Written from: Vineyard Richmond.
Forms part of a collection of letters to and about the British artist Myles Birket Foster.
Written from: Vineyard Richmond.
Forms part of a collection of letters to and about the British artist Myles Birket Foster.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking him "about the annuity fund" and adding that he doesn't recall the sum or he would send him a stamp; remarking that all his money "goes in this way", that he doesn't have £10 to pay what he owes in income tax, and asking the recipient to send him a check for the sum on Monday; exclaiming "Alas for Poor Fenn!" (possibly a reference to fellow engraver Harry Fenn (1837-1911) who had emigrated from London to New York City in 1857), and observing that "I hear no news of you"; asking if they have returned from sea, and stating that he is in the Vineyard and "working my hand off with Nelson & Mayne Reid" (possibly a reference to the publisher T. Nelson & Sons; Harvey illustrated several of works by Reid); with a note following the date below the signature: "This day 40 years I arrived in London (I believe)."
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