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Autograph Letter Signed ('Jno Howard') from John Howard of Preston to his daughter Sarah at 'Mr Jackson's | The Pike | Bolton', commending her reading and writing skills.

Author: 
John Howard of Preston, Lancashire [Sarah Howard; Mr Jackson, The Pike, Bolton; provincial education in Georgian England; literacy]
Publication details: 
Preston, Lancashire. 29 November 1823.
£56.00

3pp., 4to. Bifolium. Good, on lightly aged paper. The red wax seal has been cut away from the second leaf, with no loss to text. Addressed, on the reverse of the second leaf, to 'Miss Howard | Mr Jackson's | The Pike | Bolton | Favored by Mr. Harrison'. An affectionate letter from father to daughter. He begins by describing the pleasure he has had in reading her letter to her brother, 'and the more when I understood that you had not only written it, but composed it'. He feels she will 'profit every Day by the kind and good Instructions of your Cousin and Tutoress'.

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