Letter to Mrs McLehose, Watson Collection p.10
MS Details
ID: 26
Repository: National Library of Scotland
Call No: MS 586
MS Title: Letter to Mrs McLehose, Watson Collection p.10
MS Date: 25 January 1788
MS Year: 1788
Type: Letter
Paper Details
Paper: Laid
Dimensions (mm): 378W 230H
Chain Lines: 9
Chain Width: 1"
Chain Direction: Horizontal
Countermark: C. Taylor
Paper Maker: Clement Taylor
Mill Location: Maidstone, Kent
Country of Origin: England
Notes
Description:
Autograph [pseud. Sylvander] letter, ink on paper. Vertical fold in centre then folded again vertically then horizontally to make 4 1/2" x 3"envelope. Address has been scored out with ink.
Previously recorded information:
Letter to Mrs McLehose (Clarinda) (25 January 1788)
Notes:
Address effaced. See Ferguson Roy Letters I: "M'Lehose, 1843; corrected and completed by Wallace, 1896. Here collated with the original MS. in the National Library of Scotland. The MS. is torn, and the bracketed words are from M'Lehose. The address has been too heavily scored through to read."
C. Taylor 1768-90 listed in Churchill 1935, p.53 British Paper-Makers and Mills.
Reference: Letters 187 (20); Shorter 1971, 40-1, 60, 61, 70, 91
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