Item #263327 Autograph Letter, signed (“Thos Phillipps”), to “My dear Sharp”. Sir Thomas Phillipps.

Autograph Letter, signed (“Thos Phillipps”), to “My dear Sharp”.

M[iddle] H[ill]: January 14, 1854.

Price: $750.00


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3 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet. Foxed, paper mount along outside fold.

Item #263327

The famed mansuscript collector Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) bosts of a recent genealogical manuscript aquisition. Reading in part, “A very curious document has been sent to me this week from Ireland — no less than “an enquiry into the origin of Thos Molyneaux the Chancellor,” with depositions of Persons who knew the family at Calais, but the most singular part of it is, not one of them mentions his Father’s or Mother’s name! I have sent it to be printed in the same size as my 4to House of Molyneaux & of course you must have a copy …”.