Autograph letter signed from S.W. Singer, Box Hill, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1823 February 7.

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Autograph letter signed from S.W. Singer, Box Hill, to unidentified recipient [manuscript], 1823 February 7.

Mentions Cavendish's Wolsey, which is going slowly but steadily. He will make time to go to Paris if there is a motive for doing so; he has been working on Shakespeare and has completed his fourteenth play this day.

1 leaf ; 19 x 12 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7440387

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858

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Epithet: of Add MS 20082 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0000c3 Epithet: Librarian to the Royal Institution British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001130.0x0000c2 ...

Cavendish, George, 1500-1561?

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"Wolsey, Thomas (1470/71--1530), royal minister, archbishop of York, and cardinal, was the son of Robert Wolsey of Ipswich (d. 1496), often described as a butcher but evidently also a grazier, and his wife, Joan Daundy (d. 1509) ... Wolsey's first benefice came from the marquess of Dorset, whose sons he had taught ... Following Henry VIII's accession Wolsey became the new king's almoner in November 1509 ... In February 1513 he became dean of York, and on 6 February 1514 bishop of Li...