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Letter from Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Newmarket, to Richard Nichols, 1837 July 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
196148
Accession number
MA 14003
Creator
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847.
Display Date
1837 July 21 :
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 26 x 21.3 cm
Notes
Postmarked with seal, addressed in address panel: Mr. Nichols / Bookseller / Wakefield.
Written from the "Exning Vicarage / Newmarket."
With a passage concerning the printing of a primer and catechism, apparently unrelated to the contents of Dibdin's letter, written in pencil on page 3.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Requesting answers to a series of 13 questions concerning topography and history which he requires for the preparation of his Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland (1838); noting that he has published a sermon on the death of the King and will "send a copy for your acceptance."