BIB_ID
80042
Accession number
MA 1386.2
Creator
Gilchrist, Alexander, 1828-1861.
Display Date
Guildford, England, 1856 January 16.
Credit line
Gift of Harriet Chapman Sprague, 1951.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.1 x 12.5 cm
Notes
Housed with an autograph manuscript of five poems written in October and November, 1848. The fifth poem is incomplete (MA 1386.1).
Walter White was a writer and a librarian at the Royal Society.
Walter White was a writer and a librarian at the Royal Society.
Provenance
Gift of Harriet Sprague, 1951.
Summary
Asking how he should apply for permission to consult Admiralty log-books from fifty years ago which he believes are accessible to the public; concluding "I hope for good news of the Tyrol...before Xmas I had got into a mental slough - am now fighting my enemies with resolution again."
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