Item 13 - Letter from William Hardy to W. Aldis Wright

Public Record Office.—If Aldis Wright’s edition of Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle is not finished soon, steps may be taken to enforce its completion.

(Headed ‘Circular’.)

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Transcript

Circular.

Public Record Office
4 October 1878.

Dear Sir,

I am directed to call your attention to the undermentioned Work which you are editing in the series of “Chronicles & Memorials”, vizt “Robert of Gloucester”.

This Work was authorized by the Treasury on 3 Feby 1868, & was expected to have been completed at Press long before this date.

As I am informed that the early completion of the Chronicle would anticipate steps that may be taken by the Treasury & Stationery Office, as part of a general plan for enforcing the completion of all very old outstanding Works, I shall feel obliged by your stating whether your Chronicle will be finally completed at Press during the present year; or, if not, how soon after.

Yours faithfully,
William Hardy.

W. Aldis Wright, Esq., &c., &c.

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The direction is at the foot of the first page.