Object details
Object number
ARC.007441
Creator(s)
John Lowell Gardner Jr.
(Boston, 1837 - 1898, Boston)
Title
Copy of a Letter to T. F. Hunt from Boston with Response from the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts
Date
February 1896
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Envelope printed: If not delivered in five days / return to / Essex Institute, / Salem, Mass.
Stamped (recto right): Saelm, Mass. / Feb 12 / 4 PM / 96
Stationery printed: Boston Art Club.
Inscribed in pencil (bottom left): [[JLG to T.F. Hunt]
Provenance
Inherited by Isabella Stewart Gardner upon the death of John Lowell Gardner, Jr., December 1898.
Commentary
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