Letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Atlantic Ocean
correspondent
Bram Stoker
(Dublin, 1847 - 1912, London)
Date27 March 1894
Place MadeIreland, Europe
MediumInk on paper
Dimensions19.5 x 24.5 cm (7 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.)
ClassificationsManuscripts
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.005149
eMuseum ID724419
Other Numberv.4.2.15.x
EmbARK ObjectID24293
TMS Source ID8857
Last Updated8/9/24
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Not on viewWeb CommentaryThis letter from Bram Stoker, author of the horror novel Dracula (1897), thanks Isabella and Jack Gardner for their hospitality in Boston and expresses his wish that they might visit him at home in London. Gardner often placed tributes from writers within their published works, and this letter is no exception: it was an enclosure in her copy of Stoker’s thriller The Mystery of the Sea (1902).
ProvenanceNotesEnclosed in The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker, 1902 (v.4.2.15).
Matthew Stewart Prichard
24 April 1913
Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson
8 September 1891
