Item 557 - Letter from Christopher Wordsworth concerning the erection of a semaphore telegraph on the church tower at Sundridge

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Reference code

Add. MS a/557

Title

Letter from Christopher Wordsworth concerning the erection of a semaphore telegraph on the church tower at Sundridge

Date(s)

  • 8 Aug. 1818 (Creation)

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Item

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1 doc.

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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Purchased from Samuel Gedge Ltd., June 2017.

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Scope and content

Rectory Sundridge [Kent]. - 'You are aware that as Rector I have not the power of myself to make a grant of the Church Tower for the purpose of erecting a Telegraph. At the same time, so far as I may have a voice or influence, I should be disposed, inread more