Letter to Frederick William Chesson

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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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Item Details

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

Date(s): 16 August 1881

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

Form & transmission history: Manuscript letter in author’s hand.

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

Digital edition & date: One More Voice, 2021

Critical editing & encoding: Hope McCaffrey, Lucy McCann, Adrian S. Wisnicki

Cite this digital edition (MLA): Craft, William Ivens. “Letter to Frederick William Chesson” (16 August 1881). Hope McCaffrey, Lucy McCann, Adrian S. Wisnicki, eds. One More Voice, new dawn edition, 2021, https://onemorevoice.org/html/transcriptions/liv_020075_TEI.html.

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