A Guide to the Bill Nye Letter, 1886 June 8 Nye, Bill, Letter 7949-e

A Guide to the Bill Nye Letter, 1886 June 8

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Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 7949-e

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

7949-e

Title

Bill Nye Letter, 1886 June 8

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of 1 item (2 p. on 2 l.)

Language

English

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Bill Nye Letter, Accession #7949-e, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased on 1992 December 9.

Scope and Content Information

This letter, 1886, from Bill Nye, Hudson, Wisconsin, to "My Dear Boy" was written while the American humorist Bill Nye and poet John Whitcomb Riley were enormously successful as a "double bill" on the lecturing circuit, joined by poet Eugene Field for at least part of the year in 1886, Nye requests specific hotel accomodations for them and hints that Riley occasionally overindulges in his drinking, "We will take in any little champagne lunch you may have lying around loose, though I want to put a flea in your ear as to Mr. Riley. His favorite stumbling block is the flowing bowl and I hope that he will not be pressed to overdo it."