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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Newton, Massachusetts with Response
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from Newton, Massachusetts with Response

correspondent (American, active late 19th century - early 20th century)
Date4 February 1920
Place MadeNewton, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.002853
eMuseum ID727516
EmbARK ObjectID29551
TMS Source ID13139
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
MarksNotesResponse inscribed in pencil in Morris Carter's hand (verso): Mrs. G has read your letter / this morning + finds in it only / what you have told her / many times before. She would / like tou to undertake at once / what is necessary for such / paintings as need it, and / make the list that you are / talking about so soon as / possible so that it may be acted / on at once. Mrs. Gardner is / not well enough to repeat everything many times.