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Autograph Letter Signed ('J Carr') to 'Mrs Mathews'.

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Sir John Carr (1772-1832), English poet, author and traveller in Ireland and eleswhere [Anne Mathews [nee Anne Jackson] (d.1869), actress and wife of the actor Charles Mathews]; Charles Lamb]
Publication details: 
11 August [no year]; New Norfolk Street [Shoreditch, London].
£95.00

12mo, 3 pp. Forty-two lines of text; clear and complete. On aged and lightly-stained paper, with pin holes and short biographical details typed at head. The Lambs and the Mathews were friends, and the letter begins with a reference to Lamb's celebrated collection of essays, which Anne Mathews had presumably presented to Carr: 'Many thanks my dear Mrs Mathews for the pleasures I have derived from Elia.' Discusses introducing 'two old Devonshire female friends' to the Mathews: 'They do not like to return to Devonshire [...] without this gratification.

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Five Typewritten, Manuscript and Printed items, collected together under the heading 'Re Brothels | Papers Relating to complaints as to premises being used as brothels.' [around Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, Hackney]

Author: 
[Prostitution; Brothels; Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, Hackney, London; New Scotland Yard]
Publication details: 
London: 1913.
£56.00

All five items good, on lightly aged and slightly dusty paper. A couple of with a little rust staining from a paperclip. Text clear and entire. Wrapped in a grubby and frayed piece of covering paper, bearing the title. ONE: Typed Letter Signed (one page, folio) from the Chief Clerk to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to John A. D. Milne, Town Clerk of Shoreditch, on New Scotland Yard letterhead, dated 28 May 1913.

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