BIB_ID
195414
Accession number
MA 14954.33
Creator
Freeman, Edward A. (Edward Augustus), 1823-1892, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 26.4 x 20.5 cm
Notes
Draft of a letter evidently intended for publication and addressing an ongoing scholarly dispute carried on between Freeman and the antiquarian J.H. Round, circa 1884-1885, on the pages of Walford's Antiquarian, and elsewhere, concerning the history of Colchester Castle.
Beginning "I am anxious to know something about the alleged grant of Colchester Castle by William Rufus (as I suppose) to Eudo."
Beginning "I am anxious to know something about the alleged grant of Colchester Castle by William Rufus (as I suppose) to Eudo."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Responding, in the form of an eight point rebuttal, to statements made by J.H. Round in his "The History and Antiquities of Colchester Castle" (Colchester : Benham & Co., 1882).
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