Autograph Letter Signed ('Le Despencer') to an unnamed correspondent (a neighbouring landowner?).

Author: 
Francis Dashwood (1708-1781), 11th Baron Le Despencer, politician and rake; member of the Hellfire Club; founder of the Monks of Medmenham Abbey
Publication details: 
Hanover Square, London, 5 May 1779
£350.00
SKU: 8135

4to: 1 p. 15 lines of text. Good, on lightly aged paper, with a light stain affecting but not obscuring a couple of words. Text clear and entire. Docketed on the reverse of the otherwise-blank second leaf of the bifolium. He discusses an empty cottage which hios correspondent is claiming as on his property and which he had suggested be made available to "some poor person" but he "had no thought or intention of converting it to [his] own profit." He and his Steward do not even know where it is.He aasserts that his correspondent must have "his own" and will enquire further when he goes to Wycombe "on Saturday". A postscript gives information from his Steward about the poor man having the Cottage for years for "sixpence acknowledgment".