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Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Boston

correspondent Gretchen Osgood Warren (Boston, 1871 - 1961, Boston)

DateFebruary 1891

Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumInk on paper

ClassificationsManuscripts

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberARC.005350

Status

Not on view

Web CommentaryThis luncheon invitation from Gretchen Osgood Warren to Isabella brims with affection and playfully describes a fantastical and enticing menu. Isabella noted her enthusiastic response in the upper right-hand corner—“Yes!” to March 6 and “Yes!!!” to March 13. Transcript: 8 Mount Vernon Place [Boston] [February 1891] Thurs. March 6, 7.30 Yes! Thurs. “ 13 1 – Yes!!! Dearest Isabella, I’m nothing if not greedy! A great friend Mary Willard, is coming to me for 10 days from New York—alas! Just after my hen party as it turns out. So will you come again to us, on the 13th for lunch at one? Please. Menu. Scallops in extremis Lobster de Profundis Grapefruit in extenso and other tempting viands ad libitum Your hopeful & very grasping Gretchen

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Last Updated8/9/24

EmbARK ObjectID26443

Source ID10197