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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)LAdd/1898
TitleLetter from S[amuel] Parr
Extent2 items
Date[Late 18th century]
DescriptionUndated letter addressed 'Sir'. Parr [1747-1825] acknowledges receipt of a letter and papers. He writes that he has drawn up an address which he hopes will satisfy the recipient and other friends of Mr Combe. He asks to be sent a fair transcript 'for the Purpose of avoiding Mistakes'.

With a handwritten note signed 'J.E.D.' in which the author identifies Mr Combe as Charles Combe (1743-1817, physician and numismatist), author of 'Index nummorum omnium imperatorum, Augustorum et Caesarum' and suggests that the letter was written prior to 1783.
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