Item 12 - Letter from R. C. Wrightson to Richard Monckton Milnes

2 ff.

12 Theobald's Road, Red Lion Square. - Management of publishing business whose proprietor is Rev. [Abercromby Lockhart] Gordon, brother of the Chairman of the Oriental Bank; he requires £1000 for travel to expand Bible publishing business and can offer stock worth £6000 as security - lists titles. Writer would acknowledge Milnes' support by presenting him with 'the MS of the immortal Elegy. Postscript: Rev. Gordon bought firm of Partridge & Oakey; encloses catalogue [no longer present].