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D364 - Autograph letters relating to book purchases and other documents - 1599-1874
- B - Miscellaneous Correspondence, largely relating to book purchases - 1688-[early 19th cent]

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D364/B/26
Title	Letter from Henry Pearson, Norton Vicarage, ordering books
Date	2 Dec 1823
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Unidentified - possibly Col J R Colville of Lullington?
Privacy Notice	Data Subjects in Archives Privacy Notice
Format	Document
Term	Letters (documents)
	Books
	Reading
	Readers
Transcript or Index	Sir, A friend of mine having brought from Paris a copy of Faublas, which i prefer to that, which you sent me, I wish you to sell the copy which I had from you I have sent it by Hunt’s Waggon in a small box, & with it Bell’s anatomy 3 0 - Orfila on Poisons 2 0, Dr Smith & Dr Male & an inferior copy of Ven & Priapi [?Venus and Priapus], to be sold for what they will fetch. I saw in Lackingtons Cat. some time ago, “remarkable Trials” 2 0. 4vo – which I applied for thro’ my bookseller here, but they were sold. I wish you would procure me “The trial of Ch Angus for the murder of Miss Burns Liverpool 8vo. - of Michael Whiting for poisonoing - of Miss Butterfield for poisoning Mr Scawen 1775 - of Allen for the murder of Dulany 8vo - of Donellan for the murder of Sir Th. Broughton. - of Motherills Trial for a rape. I have the state Trials, Select Trials, for murders from 1733 to 1741 4 vols 12mo – Trials for Adultery 2 vol. 12mo. 1780 – annals of Gallantry 3 0 8vo 1815. I will thank you to look into different catalogues for trials for murders & & [sic] send me a few volumes, or if you meet with any sales, to purchase some. This will oblige sr, yr obedt servt H Pearson Norton Vicarage nr Sheffield Decr 11 1823 “The Amours of the Chevalier de Faublas” by Jean-Baptise Louvet de Couvray

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