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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Southwold, to [Thomas] Wardle, [1885] Oct. 3.

BIB_ID
352652
Accession number
MA 4669
Creator
Morris, William, 1834-1896.
Display Date
[1885] Oct. 3.
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Written on Kelmscott House, Upper Mall, Hammersmith stationery.
Possible year of writing identifed by typed description.
Provenance
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., in 1975.
Summary
Saying he does not think that the amount of lead and arsenic in papers could possibly cause illness, but promising to get to the bottom of the matter. With a postscript noting that people often get lead poisioning from eating food cooked in tin vessels.