Record ID:
130129
Accession number:
MA 1294.34
Date:
1811 Jan. 19.
Credit:
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 7.7 x 12.1 cm
Notes:
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
The manuscript date and the frank are both unclear; it appears to be January 19th, 1811.
There is a manuscript notation beneath the fragment on the verso "Sir Rob't."
Summary:
Being a franked address panel with a signature which does not appear to be that of Robert Peel; having on the verso a fragment of a letter from Mr. Dowland, likely to Mr. Peel, which appears to be discussing a volume of a book.
Provenance:
Kaye Dowland.
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