Manuscript draft of the Preface to the Third Edition of "Liverpool of Few Years Since" (1885).

Two pages, folio, fold marks, some additions and corrections in author's hand, remnants of laying down process, text complete and clear. He says that the new edition responds to demand by an appreciative public perhaps families of people mentioned, city's development, anticipating an update of the history, hoping for "rapid demand". Signed " [?] Aspinall".