Miscellany.- Wells Cathedral.- Shaw (Henry, antiquary and illuminator, 1800-73) Autograph Letter signed to John Britton, 2pp, with conjugate blank and address panel, sm. 4to, Wells, 5th September 1823, making drawings of Wells Cathedral for John Britton's Cathedral Antiquities, "I received the Parcel containing the sketches to yesterday morning. I shall proceed with them as fast as possible - The West front I have drawn the full size of the Drawing board... as you desired, taking my station immediately opposite the centre at the farther end of the Church yard so as to take in the principal Tower - do you intend this... be reduced for Mr Le Keux?, three small water-stains, slightly browned, folds; [Lockhart (John Gibson, writer and literary editor, 1794-1854), "P[eter] M[orris]." [Letter LXX to Ferdinand Augustus Potts, Esq. from "Peter's Letters to his Kinfolk"], manuscript, 8pp., folds, slightly browned, unbound, folio, [c. 1830]; and c. 15 others, including documents signed by Palmerston and Lord Portland, v.s., v.d. (c. 15).
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