Autograph Note Signed ('John Fothergill') from the archaeologist-turned-innkeeper John Rowland Fothergill to William Freeman. With printed caricature.

12mo, 1 p. Fair, on aged paper, with brown paper mount along one margin. The letterhead, with design of three swans, is printed in purple. Having seen a notice by Freeman in the Sunday Times, he has 'jotted down (at high speed) the enclosed notes' (not present). Typed at foot of page: 'Presented to my collection by William Freeman Esq.' Laid down on the reverse is the caricature of Fothergill by Bert Thomas, printed in colour, from the dust-jacket of 'John Fothergill's Cookery Book' (1943), with attractive manuscript caption in blue and red ink. For more on Fothergill see his obituary in The Times, 29 August 1957, and the follow-up letters by Philip Harben and 'R. A. B.' published on 4 and 5 September of the same year.