Letters by Shrimpton during the siege of Paris
- Date:
- 1870
- Reference:
- MS.7610/15-16
- Part of:
- Shrimpton, Charles (fl. 1845-1870), English doctor based in France
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Two issues of the printed Lettre-Journal de Paris, issued during the siege of 1870, each with a blank page used by Shrimpton to write to the Dowager Countess of Essex in London. The letters are marked as leaving the besieged city by balloon. Printed biographical details and a photograph, presumably of the Countess of Essex, are mounted with no.16.
Publication/Creation
1870
Physical description
2 letters
Acquisition note
Purchased from Sotheby's, London, December 1999 (acc.1159).
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 1159