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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Boston

correspondent (1839 - 1934, Cambridge)
Date7 November 1921
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.002488
eMuseum ID728827
EmbARK ObjectID29193
TMS Source ID12782
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web Commentary
This letter from Frances Morse Lang, the wife of Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor Benjamin Morse Lang, includes a passage where Frances recommends the book The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle to Isabella Stewart Gardner. The two women had a shared love of literature, and many of Frances’s letters include book recommendations. Frances gave Isabella a copy of The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle which Isabella kept in the Macknight Room. 


MarksNotesDated in pencil in Morris Carter's hand (page 1, upper right): 1921
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Frances Morse Lang
late 19th century - early 20th century
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Frances Morse Lang
24 January 1923
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Frances Morse Lang
late 19th century - early 20th century
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Frances Morse Lang
15 November 1922
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Frances Morse Lang
30 January 1888
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Frances Morse Lang
early 20th century
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Frances Morse Lang
20 December 1917
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Frances Morse Lang
14 April 1914