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

Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner

correspondent (American, 1860 - 1950)
DateApril 1909
MediumInk on paper
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.003917
eMuseum ID721310
EmbARK ObjectID29912
Other NumberU27e349
TMS Source ID13498
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner’s friends often sent her gifts from their travels. In this letter, Gardner’s friend Dodge Macknight talks about a Spanish altar frontal he sent her for her birthday, noting that if Gardner did not like it, she could “exchange it at any time for anything I carry in stock.” Clearly Gardner appreciated the gift, because she chose to place the striking altar frontal in the Spanish Chapel.