Item 27 - Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Gilbert Pattisson

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/746/27

Title

Letter from Ludwig Wittgenstein to Gilbert Pattisson

Date(s)

  • [May? no year] (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

1 sheet, with [?] cigarette card pasted at end of letter.

Context area

Content and structure area

Scope and content

'Monday'. - Arrangements for meeting Drury; would prefer to get out of Cambridge. Wittgenstein has pasted a small picture of Mary II [most likely cut from a Player's cigarette card] at the end of the letter, with the note 'By the way, this is my wife'.

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Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Paper fragile; letter preserved in melinex.

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