Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS a/40/75
Title
Copy of letter, 16 Dec 1792, from Edward Gibbon to his aunt Mary Porten
Date(s)
- [1890?] (Creation)
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Extent and medium
2 sheets (each seemingly torn pieces - halves?- of larger lined sheets)
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Scope and content
In Aldis Wright's hand.
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Related units of description
Items Add.MS.a/40/71-77 all found together in an envelope addressed to W. Aldis Wright at Beccles, Suffolk, postmarked Oct. 6 [18]90 and labelled 'Gibbon' in blue pencil. Seal in red wax on back of envelope, showing a garlanded head, in profile.