Item 201 - Letter from James Bailey to B. Chapman

New Peckham, Surrey - JB is grateful to BC for seeing WW on the subject of his pension [see JB to WW, 26 June 1843]. Although he has not yet had a reply from WW to his note outlining the problem, 'it is quite clear from your letter that, with his usual ability & decision, he has already removed the main obstacle'. JB gives an account of his financial difficulties. The Press Syndicate have granted £100 to go towards the printing of the second part of his Greek Comic Fragments [Analecta Graeca Minora ... Novam ed. Homer's Iliadis...instrux it, 1843]. He has been unable to complete this work because all his books are at the pawnbroker's.