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[Charles Fechter, actor.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Ch. Fechter') to Lord Errington, asking for assistance from Baring's Bank over 'the difficulties I had to run through because of my loss of money'.

Author: 
Charles Fechter [Charles Albert Fechter] (1824-1879), Anglo-French actor [Lord Errington; Alexander Baring (1774-1848), 1st Baron Ashburton]
Publication details: 
Undated; 'at Chappat's house - | 25. Rue d'Hauteville - | Paris -'. On letterhead of 18 Marlborough Place, St John's Wood, N.W. [London].
£45.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, creased and lightly-aged. The letter begins: 'My dear Lord Errington, | You know the difficulties I had to run through because of my loss of money. The rest of my present fortune I am not allowed to withdraw without, for one sum, a years notice, the other, 18 months, the whole sum being 5 or £6,000.' He proceeds explains the particulars of his proposal to 'deposite [sic] with A. B. [i.e. Alexander Baring] two bills of exhcange each of half the sum above mentioned'.

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