Object details
Object number
ARC.005187
Creator(s)
Richard P. Strong
(Fortress Monroe, Virginia, 1872 - 1948, Boston)
Title
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Aboard the S.S. Canopic, off Gibraltar
Date
27 March 1914
Medium
Handwritten and printed ink on paper
Language
English
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Printed in blue ink (on recto, upper right): On board S.S. "CANOPIC" / _191
Inscribed in graphite (on recto of envelope, lower right): gone to Serbia / to care about / Typhus fever
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