Four Autograph Letters Signed, written as a young man, initially as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, to Thomas Hill [book collector, friend of Southey, etc. 1760-1840] about his numerous debts in Cambridge and elsewhere, his friends and connections, the arrival of a duck pie from Toulouse, and much else.
by PERRY, Sir Thomas Eerskine
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Trinity College Cambridge, Hermitage, University Club, 1823-24 & c.1830. 5 pages, seal tears, generally good. Typed transcript. Ex Michael Silverman Collection, Bonhams, 2011. Sir Thomas Erskine Perry (1806 1882), Liberal politician and judge in India. After serving as chief justice of the supreme court in Bombay and as a Member of Parliament in Britain, he served as a member of the Council of India for 21 years. I must pay some of my bills in London, they are continually dunning me, and independently of the bore, it is rather a disgrace. I met Johny Dingwall & his wife the other day at the French play. The sweet beef is more gross and greasy than ever, whilst his lady looks very charming and fascinating. The pair look like nothing else but a plat of fat boiling beef side by side to a delicate little entree of cotelettes dagneau ...
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- Four Autograph Letters Signed, written as a young man, initially as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, to Thomas Hill [book collector, friend of Southey, etc. 1760-1840] about his numerous debts in Cambridge and elsewhere, his friends and connections, the arrival of a duck pie from Toulouse, and much else.
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- PERRY, Sir Thomas Eerskine
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- Used
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- Trinity College Cambridge, Hermitage, University Club, 1823-24 & c.1830
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