Autograph Letter, signed “Thos Phillipps” , to “My dear Sharp”

by Sir Thomas Phillipps

$750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

3 pp. pen and ink on folded sheet. Foxed, paper mount along outside fold. Item #263327 The famed mansuscript collector Sir Thomas Phillipps 1792-1872 bosts of a recent genealogical manuscript aquisition. Reading in part, “A very curious document has been sent to me this week from Ireland — no less than “an enquiry into the origin of Thos Molyneaux the Chancellor,” with depositions of Persons who knew the family at

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