Autograph Letter Signed ('Astley Cooper') from the surgeon and anatomist Sir Astley Paston Cooper accusing Thomas Penrice of Great Yarmouth of being an 'Odd Fish'.

1p., 4to. Fifteen lines. On aged paper and worn paper with loss to text, laid down on piece of card. Addressed to 'Mr Penrice | Gt Yarmouth'. An amusing communication reading: 'My dear ir | I have no more idea than he man in the Moon to whom your letter refers - No Enigma or Delphic Oracle could be more mysterious - Who Mr Smith is - to which of ye Classes of Animals he belong - from whence he came & whither he is gone I know not<.> | In which class of animals y are to be numbered I well know or you are certainly an Odd Fis | Do throw a litt light into my puzzled brain & bieve me always most truly yours | [signed] Astley Cooper'.