BIB_ID
80540
Accession number
MA 4379
Creator
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882.
Display Date
"Friday" [1836?].
Credit line
Gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
With a sketch and notes by Cruikshank by verso.
The date of writing is simply given as "Friday", however, it is likely the year is 1836 when George Cruikshank was working on the "Sketches by 'Boz'" which John Macrone would publish.
The date of writing is simply given as "Friday", however, it is likely the year is 1836 when George Cruikshank was working on the "Sketches by 'Boz'" which John Macrone would publish.
Provenance
From the Marjorie Wiggin Prescott sale at Christies, New York, February 6, 1981, Lot 77.
Summary
Sending the bearer of the letter to collect the miniature of Sir Henry Bedingfeld; asking if he can "fix the time when you can conveniently commence the plates for Mr. [John] Macrone, that I may return a positive answer to Dickens."
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