Autograph Letter Signed to Messrs Coutts & Co, Bankers in the Strand, London, with addressed envelope.

The Egypt Exploration Fund, now the Egypt Exploration Society, was founded in 1882. 2 pages, 8vo, on the last and first pages of a bifoliate, attached by pin to an envelope which was originally 16mo but has been cut open and is now 8vo. In good condition despite pin holes. 'Gentlemen - | Our financial year ends on July 31st so that shd. your client wish to receive the book of the Current year a subscription must be paid before the 1st Aug: next. It is not, however, essential thhat the subscription for 1901-2 should be paid in Aug: 1901, shd. Surgeon General Subthorpe [sic] prefer it you can pay it next July.' The envelope carries a postmark over a one penny stamp of Queen Victoria. It has 'EGYPT EXPLORATION | FUND.' printed on the flap and is docketed C Sebthorpe [sic] and stamped in blue '16 JUL. 1901'. Presumably the letter refers to the eccentric Tory MP Colonel Sibthorpe.