Correspondence
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- OBJECT TYPE
- LETTER/PERSONAL
- DATE
- 1919
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1990.0503.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- England
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- paper
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 20.4 cm
- Width
- 12.7 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Archives
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Brown
- Country
- England
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Nova Scotia
- Period
- the trans-Atlantic flight took place on June 14, 1919/ the letter is dated July 3, 1919
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
letter acknowledges addressee's congratulations on first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight by Capt. John Alcock (Pilot) & writer, Lieut. Arthur Whitten Brown (Navigator), in a Vickers Vimy - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- letterhead reads: "Telephone, KENSINGTON 6520./VICKERS LIMITED./IN REPLYING, PLEASE REFER TO/AWB/LL/Enclosures/Imperial Court,/Basil Street, Knightsbridge,/London, S.W.3."; type written text reads: "Dear Mr. Usher,/Many thanks for your letter and/congradulations. I hope that I shall/have an opportunity of seeing you again,/and if I should be in canada and you hear/of me, please let me know when and where/it will be convenient to meet you./I am afraid that Mc.Donald will be/disappointed about my shaving brush as/it was lost in the bog in Ireland, but/I believe that alcock still has his and/will return it in due course./Yours sincerely,/[signature] A.W. Brown/W.H. Lyne Usher Esq.,/Messrs. Harold F. Ritchie & Co. Ltd.,/283 South Street,/Halifax, N.S."; lettering hand wirtten in pen on back reads: "This is Mr. Brown who with/Alcock flew the Atlantic./)I believe the first nonstop/crossing)"
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- black letterhead, type written text & singature on light gray paper
- Decoration
- none
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Unknown Manufacturer, Correspondence, 1919, Artifact no. 1990.0503, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1990.0503.001/
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