Item 33 - Letter from Sir Edward W. Corry Astley to Dawson Turner(?)

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Add. MS a/659/33

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Letter from Sir Edward W. Corry Astley to Dawson Turner(?)

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  • 1833 (Creation)

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Vicarage, Gorleston.—Thanks him for his invitation. Will wait on him tomorrow.

(Dated Wednesday. Turner has added the year ‘1833’ at the head.)

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Vicarage | Gorleston {1}
Wednesday Morn[in]g

Dear Sir /

Pray accept my best thanks for your polite Note, and very Friendly Invitation, and as you are so Kind to allow me to name the day, I shall have great pleasure in waiting on You tomorrow.―

Believe me

Very truly Yours
E: W: C: Astley―

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Black-edged paper. Dawson Turner has added at the top in ink, ‘1833’, and in pencil, ‘B?’, the significance of which is unclear. The letters missing from one word abbreviated by a superscript letter have been supplied in square brackets.

{1} The vicar of Gorleston from 1832 to 1841 was William Gunn, the father-in-law of Dawson Turner’s daughter Harriet. Members of the Astley family had been patrons of the living since the 18th century. Gunn had been presented by Lucy Browne (née Astley), the widow of Thomas Browne, the previous incumbent, formerly Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge.

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      This description was created by A. C. Green in 2022.

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