Letter from Gordon Browne, undated

An undated Autographed Letter Signed (ALS) from Gordon Browne explaining that he is not prepared to part with his father's sketches, but providing the address of his mother who "still has some portfolios of sketches". Gordon Frederick Browne (15 April 1858–27 May 1932) was an English artist and children's book illustrator. He was born in Banstead, the younger son of notable book illustrator Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). From the 1880s, Browne was one of Britain's most prolific illustrators. Part of a collection of letters written by illustrators of Charles Dickens' works.

In Collection:

• 19th Century Manuscripts Collection

Creator

• Browne, Gordon, 1858-1932

Subject

• Illustrators
• Authors
• Illustration of books
• Authors, English

Language

• eng

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial

Extent

• 1 leaf (folded)

Geographic coverage

• England

Coordinates

• 52.16045, -0.70312

Additional physical characteristics

• Handwritten on both sides of a single leaf.

Collection

• 19th Century Manuscripts Collection

Provenance

• For further information please contact Special Collections and University Archives.

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• letters (correspondence)
• autographs (manuscripts)
• correspondence

Archival item identifier

• Accession Number: 2020-037
• File: 1.15

Fonds title

• Peter Lowens collection

Fonds identifier

• SC564

Is referenced by

• Archival Finding Aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/peter-lowens-collection

Date digitized

• September 15, 2020

Technical note

• 800 dpi TIFF. Metadata by KD.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/9tfz-7b05

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