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Bath.- Rebuilding the Temple of Minerva.- Whitaker (John, historian, 1735-1808) Autograph Letter signed to the Rev. Benjamin Richardson, Rector of Farleigh Hungerford near Bath, letter incomplete, 1p., folio, n.p., n.d., [c. 1795], "Ever since I have freed myself from the Blagden Controversy [Hannah More's school in Blagdon] I have been setting my mind determinately upon Mr Warner's History of Bath and reviewing it at full length for the Anti-Jacobin... He has made many mistakes... In the third article I have nearly rebuilt the Temple of Minerva, and want a little of your architectural assistance...", tears where opened and along folds, browned.

⁂ Benjamin Richardson (1758-1832), gained a BA at Christ Church College, Oxford in 1781 and was ordained as a priest in the following year. From 1796 until his death he was Rector of Farleigh Hungerford, lived there and was buried in front of the altar in the church. William Lonsdale, President of the Geology Society of London, called him "a gentleman long and extensively known as a diligent and successful cultivator of science".

Lot 13

Bath.- Rebuilding the Temple of Minerva.- Whitaker (John) Autograph Letter signed to the Rev. Benjamin Richardson, Rector of Farleigh Hungerford near Bath, letter incomplete, [c. 1795].

Estimate: £300 - 400

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Bath.- Rebuilding the Temple of Minerva.- Whitaker (John, historian, 1735-1808) Autograph Letter signed to the Rev. Benjamin Richardson, Rector of Farleigh Hungerford near Bath, letter incomplete, 1p., folio, n.p., n.d., [c. 1795], "Ever since I have freed myself from the Blagden Controversy [Hannah More's school in Blagdon] I have been setting my mind determinately upon Mr Warner's History of Bath and reviewing it at full length for the Anti-Jacobin... He has made many mistakes... In the third article I have nearly rebuilt the Temple of Minerva, and want a little of your architectural assistance...", tears where opened and along folds, browned.

⁂ Benjamin Richardson (1758-1832), gained a BA at Christ Church College, Oxford in 1781 and was ordained as a priest in the following year. From 1796 until his death he was Rector of Farleigh Hungerford, lived there and was buried in front of the altar in the church. William Lonsdale, President of the Geology Society of London, called him "a gentleman long and extensively known as a diligent and successful cultivator of science".

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