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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)KWH/Q/251
TitleLetter from William Dyde, Tewkesbury, to unidentified correspondent
Extent1 item
Date1795
DescriptionWrites with surprise that no advertisement for his poems has been published yet in the London Chronicles; fears that the poems have not been received by the recipient of the letter even though he has been assured by a friend that the poems were delivered: regrets not sending them by coach but by an 'unconventional' mode; he will send three essays to be published as soon as he finishes them, may also send four volumes of sermons; is surprised that Milton was apparently not yet published
29 April 1795

[William Dyde, printer and antiquarian, his 'History and Antiquities of Tewkesbury' was published in 1790 with a second edition in 1798]
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