BIB_ID
446614
Accession number
MA 14533
Creator
Keene, Charles, 1823-1891, sender.
Display Date
Witley, England, between 1865 and 1876
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 11.6 x 8.9 cm
Notes
Written from: Tigbourne Witley.
Addressed to "Dear Cooper"; probably Alfred William Cooper, a longtime friend and associate of Keene's, with whom he served in the Volunteer Rifle Corps (no. 5 Kensington Company, 2nd Middlesex) and according to Keene's biographer Layard (The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene, 1892) shared a tent in the regimental camp at Wimbledon between 1867 and 1871; it is noted that Keene evidently rented Tigbourne Cottage in Witley from 1865 to 1876.
Forms part of a collection of letters to and about the British artist Myles Birket Foster.
Addressed to "Dear Cooper"; probably Alfred William Cooper, a longtime friend and associate of Keene's, with whom he served in the Volunteer Rifle Corps (no. 5 Kensington Company, 2nd Middlesex) and according to Keene's biographer Layard (The Life and Letters of Charles Samuel Keene, 1892) shared a tent in the regimental camp at Wimbledon between 1867 and 1871; it is noted that Keene evidently rented Tigbourne Cottage in Witley from 1865 to 1876.
Forms part of a collection of letters to and about the British artist Myles Birket Foster.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing that he ought to have arranged for him to pay his subscription "to our camp", that he will be back in town next Monday, asking him to drop him a line if he has already paid for him, and expressing his hope tha Coooper will "go halves" with him.
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