album;
envelope;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1960,1014.2.95
- Description
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Envelope within which there are two further opening envelopes, of decreasing size, one inside the other, from the album 'Letters to Katie'; the smallest inner envelope, when opened, revealing a small chick, standing on grass, just hatched from broken egg; the middle enveloped inscribed with the words 'Hush!' with the words 'dear Katie - promise never to to tell this - it is a secret' on the outer envelope.
Brown pen and ink
- Production date
- 1883-1889
- Dimensions
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Height: 70 millimetres
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Width: 95 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Letter to Katie Lewis from the album 'Letters to Katie'. For information about the album, see curatorial comment for 1960,1014.2(1).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Drawings cannot be removed from the album.
For exhibition history of album, see 1960,1014.2.1
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Acquisition notes
- The correct register number for this album is 1961,1014.2(1 to 101), but it was misstamped as 1960,1014.2(1-100).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1960,1014.2.95
