WODDERSPOON

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Autograph Letter Signed ('J Britton') to Wodderspoon

Author: 
John Britton (1771-1857), antiquary and topographer [John Wodderspoon, Suffolk antiquary]
Publication details: 
Undated [postmarked Richmond, 2 May 1840].
£56.00

8vo, 1 p. Address, with broken wax seal and two postmarks, on verso of second leaf of bifolium. He has ('with much satisfaction') read in the Gentleman's Magazine an account of Wodderspoon's 'new work on Suffolk' ('Historic sites, and other remarkable and interesting places, in the county of Suffolk'), and 'it occurs to me that you may be pleased with a few points illustrative of the Antiquities'. Offers 'prints that I have published in the Architectural Antiqs of Oxburgh Hall' as 'tokens of a veteran topographer to the aspiring emulation of a young one'.

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