Written in the third person.
Camden gives the place of writing as "Lincoln's Inn Fields."
Address panel with part of a seal: "To / The Revd Dr. Percy."
Additional provenance information is available in the Collection File.
Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and editor of Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, was involved in questioning the authenticity of poems that the teenage poet Thomas Chatterton had attributed to a 15th-century monk called Thomas Rowley, though they were actually his own creations. The identity of the curious "Gentleman" that Camden refers to in this letter is unknown.