Letter to Frederick William Chesson

Author(s) & contributor(s): William Ivens Craft

Date(s): 16 August 1881

Place(s) of creation: 12 Blue Cross St. Haymarket S.W.

Object Description: Off-white four-page/one-sheet letter, two blank pages; main hand in black ink with archival note.

Repository: Bodleian Library (Oxford, United Kingdom)

Shelfmark / Identifier: MSS. Brit. Emp. S.18, C129/128

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℅ Mr. Crosher C129/128

                        12 Blue Cross St.
                            Haymarket
                                                S.W.
                                    August 16/81

F.W. Chesson Esq.

Sir,

I am sorry to intrude
on your valuable time again
but I will be very brief.
I have been employed tempor-
arily for a few weeks as a
messenger & I now am sure
I could get a promotion as
clerk if I could only get
a decent suit of clothes.
"a cast off" one from any
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of your friends would do.
Please do your best for me
& I'll be very grateful.

Yrs respectfully
W. I. Craft

P.S. An early answer will oblige

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