BIB_ID
433743
Accession number
MA 23559
Creator
Popham, Home Riggs, 1762-1820.
Display Date
London, England, 1809 March.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 18.3 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written in the third person.
Docketed. Date of writing from the docket.
Address panel: "Mr Leader &c &c / Coach Maker / [Liquier] Pond St / Bloomsbury." Popham's correspondent is most likely William Leader, whose father had been coachmaker to the Prince of Wales, of 37 Liquor Pond Street, St. Andrew's, Holborn.
Popham gives an address in St. James's Square as the place of writing, but it has not been identified.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume IV, page 12.
Docketed. Date of writing from the docket.
Address panel: "Mr Leader &c &c / Coach Maker / [Liquier] Pond St / Bloomsbury." Popham's correspondent is most likely William Leader, whose father had been coachmaker to the Prince of Wales, of 37 Liquor Pond Street, St. Andrew's, Holborn.
Popham gives an address in St. James's Square as the place of writing, but it has not been identified.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of Alexis Brialmont, History of the life of Arthur, duke of Wellington (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858-1860); PML 7901-7916; volume IV, page 12.
Summary
Requesting that Leader fix the lamps on his chariot, "to prevent the great noise they still make going over the stones"; adding that there is also something defective about "the wheel that lets the bit run out"; asking Leader to instruct Popham's coachman regarding cleaning and polishing since the latter is a "young man new in his service"; adding that if the carriage needs to be polished, Popham requests that it be done immediately "as Lady P. is in town."
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