Autograph letter signed : Whitehall, to an unidentified recipient, 1705 Jan. 19.

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Autograph letter signed : Whitehall, to an unidentified recipient, 1705 Jan. 19.

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Directing him to decipher and return two letters, one of them on the same sheet. On the reverse is a translation of a letter dated 11 January, 1705, from the administrators of the almshouses in Augsburg, asking for assistance from Queen Anne.

1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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