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Auction: 12013 - The Collector's Series sale
Lot: 2061

Great Britain Postal History A Selection of Poignant Entires and Letters 1730 (c), four pages of a diary of a gentleman living near to London, without postal references but a charming and fascinating glimpse into a week of eighteenth century life (transcript included commencing "7 a clock got up. Washed ye gum of my eyes ......3(p.m.) Dinner on table, no spinnage boyled, & ye loaf cut awry. I could not eat...........10p.m. Supped on cold beef; ye Vinegar bad. I must be cupped; too ill for prayers", etc., etc., finishing on Sunday "So ye week goes round") Estimate £ 200-250

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£130