Object details
Object number
ARC.002511
Creator(s)
Charles Rockwell Lanman
(Norwich, Connecticut, 1850 - 1941, Boston)
Title
Letter with Response Dictated to Morris Carter and Brochure on the Harvard Oriental Series to Isabella Stewart Gardner from 9 Farrar Street, Cambridge
Date
28 May 1921
Medium
Ink on paper
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (page 1, upper left): #9790 / Mr Lanman say OK / for electrotyping
Marked in red crayon (page 1, right center): TT
Inscribed in blue ink (page 1, along right margin): I should like to send you volumes 28-29-30, Legends of the Buddhist Saints, as soon as the strink in the binders / is over.
Inscribed in pencil (page 1, bottom left): This may be case / CRL / H-2-2
Inscribed in pencil in Morris Carter's hand (page 5): Perhaps in Sept I shall / be welleno to receive them / but the hot weather / takes it out of me + / Shall to say yes, because / perhaps Sunday not be / able. I'm much / obliged for _ / Very kind of y to think of / sending me vols. I / look forward with / great pleasure
Inscribed in pencil (envelope recto, right): 20252 / 330A / [CR LANMAN]
Dictated response from Isabella Stewart Gardner inscribed in pencil in Morris Carter's hand (envelope verso). See transcript.
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