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Autograph Letter Signed, with postmarked envelope and red wax seal, to 'Samuel Lucas, cornfactor, Warwick Street, London'.

Author: 
Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen (1792-1836), Quaker schoolmaster (Leighton Road, Woburn), poet and translator of Tasso
Publication details: 
26 March 1819; Woburn.
£85.00

4to: 1 p. Very good. Tipped in by reverse edge to leaf removed from autograph album. Envelope similarly mounted, with almost-intact seal and two postmarks, including a circular one in black ink stating 'MORE TO PAY'. He met John Grant the previous day at Wycombe Quarterly Meeting, and was told by him that Lucas had 'enquired of him the Terms of Admission to my school'.

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