Object details
Object number
ARC.005765
Creator(s)
Daniel Berkeley Updike
(Providence, Rhode Island, 1860 - 1941, Boston)
Title
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Merrymount Press, No. 232 Summer Street, Boston
Date
31 August 1920
Medium
Typewritten and printed ink on paper
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Printed in ink (on recto, upper center): D.B. UPDIKE THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS / NO. 232 SUMMER ST. BOSTON / D.B. UPDIKE JOHN BIANCHI / CABLE ADDRESS UPDIKE BOSTON / TELEPHONE MAIN 1922
Signed in ink (on recto, lower right): D.B. Updike
Inscribed in graphite (on recto, lower center, in Isabella Stewart Gardner's hand): Dear M. U., / Please begin directly and make 5000 / as I first suggested. I suppose y[ou] never mean / to bring down y[our] price which I see is slightly / mounting. I do hope y[ou] have had a good rest + are better / Sincerely y[ou]rs / I.S. Gardner
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