Two Autograph Letters Signed from Spencer Hall, librarian of the Athenaeum Club, London, to an unnamed correspondent, regarding the parliamentarian judge Thomas Fell.
Author:
Spencer Hall (1806-1875), Irish-born librarian of the Athenaeum Club, London, 1833-1875 [Philip Henry Howard; Thomas Fell (c.1599-1658), judge and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]
Publication details:
15 and 26 October 1842; both from Athenaeum Club, Waterloo Place, London.
£85.00
SKU: 11034
Both items good, on lightly-aged paper. ONE. 15 October 1842. 4to, 3 pp. Philip Henry Howard has placed in Hall's hands 'a memorandum relative to some questions proposed by you, with regard to Thomas Fell of Lancaster', and he provides information which he considers shows that Fell 'disapproved of the course of events, in 1547 - absented himself & never appeared in public life again - but a private memoir would tend to verify this suspicion'. TWO. 26 October 1842. 12mo, 3 pp. Replying to his correspondent's letter of 18 October, reporting on the results of further investigations, and making more conjectures.