BIB_ID
119326
Accession number
MA 9752
Creator
Young, Charles Mayne, 1777-1856.
Display Date
1844 September 12.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.1 x 11.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with stamp and postmark: "Mr. Lloyd, / Hair dresser / corner of [illegible word] Passage [Right] / Regents Street / London."
According to a court case recorded in The Weekly Reporter, Solomon Lloyd invented "a composition for shaving without soap or water and called it Lloyd's Euxesis" in 1844 (Hovenden v. Lloyd, written up in The Weekly Reporter, volume XVIII, August 27, 1870). Based on internal evidence, Solmon Lloyd is probably the addressee of this letter.
Young does not give a place of writing, but based on its contents and postmarks, the letter appears to have been written in Leeds.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
According to a court case recorded in The Weekly Reporter, Solomon Lloyd invented "a composition for shaving without soap or water and called it Lloyd's Euxesis" in 1844 (Hovenden v. Lloyd, written up in The Weekly Reporter, volume XVIII, August 27, 1870). Based on internal evidence, Solmon Lloyd is probably the addressee of this letter.
Young does not give a place of writing, but based on its contents and postmarks, the letter appears to have been written in Leeds.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London: Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number: 509 D548 F.
Summary
Asking that, unless Euxesis is sold in Leeds, some be sent to him directly, by rail; giving the address in Leeds where the shaving cream should be sent; mentioning that he is also expecting a parcel from Mr. Jeffs, a bookseller with a store at 15 Burlington Arcade, and the two items could be sent together; saying that he has almost run out of Euxesis and needs it urgently; adding "I am in a large House full of company to whom I could recommend it strongly."
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