BIB_ID
418415
Accession number
MA 9909.28
Creator
Pigon, H.C., active 1882.
Display Date
Wyke Regis, England, 1882 November 14.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.2 cm
Notes
With a note on the verso from Cradock to Professor Knight, dated "Brasenose College / 17. Dec. 82" saying "I have found the missing letter from Mr. Pigon but I believe that I told you the contents."
From the collection of William Angus Knight.
From the collection of William Angus Knight.
Summary
Responding to Cradock's inquiry about the memorial stone to John Wordsworth; saying "Either your memory has played you false or the stone in memory of Capt. John Wordsworth has since you saw it disappeared or the cutting so [illegible] off as to be undecipherable : for there is no such stone now - I have been myself 27 years here & never seen it...but oddly enough my clerk who has been here some 35 years says there was a tradition that the Capt. of the Abergavenny long buried in a certain point-out-spot in the Chyard, but without a stone...laid north & south instead of east & west - The traditional spot is still known, on the east-side of the Church Porch, but no trace of a stone. I am sorry I cannot give you a better answer than this."
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