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                    Letter 1:  24 January 1840, no place;  letter 2:  25 January 1842, no place.        
         
 
English sculptor (1788-1867)(DNB), responsible for the Nelson on Nelson's Column.  Both letters are discoloured by age, but otherwise in good condition.  The first letter is 1 page, 16mo, cropped and mounted on a larger piece of paper.  'My Dear Sir Martin | Absence from Town will I hope be a sufficient apology for my not sooner acknowledging the receipt of your card of invitation for Wednesday next - and to state that I shall have great pleasure dining with you that day.'  The second letter is 2 pages, 16mo, heavily discoloured and with remains of four wax mounts in corners and elsewhere.