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A series of 12 autograph letters signed 60-sides 8vo. Winster Hall Derbyshire & elsewhere.

réf. 17510 — Three of the letters 15-sides 1875-1881 are addressed to "Dr. Brushfield" Thomas Nadauld Brushfield 1828-1910 Alienist and antiquarian. The other 9 letters are addressed to another member of the Brushfield family. His letter of 27th September 1875 thanks him for sending a copy of the "Metropolitan with the portrait of your father.To me there is a somewhat coarse common and low look if I may so express myself re the portrait." and continues at length as to how a better portrait may be produced or even a parian bust - "I have just arranged . to do a bust of my dear old friend S.C.Hall whose name you will know" and continues that he is preparing a memoir of Brushfield's father for the next number of the 'Reliquary'His letter of 30th January 1876 to Dr. Brushfield expresses great alarm on reading of his narrow escape from "the attack made upon you". That of 28th September 1881 refers to a book on Gloucestershire his own 'Half Hours among English Antiquities' and sings the praises of Devonshire congratulating him upon his retirement to Budleigh SaltertonThe remaining 9 letters 45-sides 1865-1881 are perhaps to Brushfield's brother and concern heraldry various books family matters and that he is "grieved but not surprised at what you tell me regarding the Reverend delinquent. It is grievous to see a minister of religion so forget himself" and much else on the subject. unknown