Reference code
CL/3/1
Title
R.R. Reinagle, 41 Mornington Road, Regents Park, to [unknown]
Date
22 Mar 1847
Level
Item
Extent & medium
1 piece, with envelope
Content Description
Providing a potted autobiography in response to a request for an autograph. Focussing in particular on his early years, his youthful independence, travels through Europe and his invention of Panoramas.
Physical Characteristics
The letter retains a fragmentary hinge mount and has clearly spent some time in a collector's scrapbook. The envelope has been trimmed and backed, having undergone a similar process.
Bibliography
The letter was published in The Times, 18th August 1939.