Autograph letter signed.
Athenaeum Club [London], 6. IV. 1840.
8vo. 1½ pp.
€ 320.00
To the Reverend Benjamin Bradney Bockett, the vicar of Epsom, Surrey, with a request to sign and return certain documents: "I shall be most obliged to you if you will sign the two certificates enclosed. Mrs Courtenay will call or send for them. I was very glad to see you doing duty again yesterday [...]".
Courtenay wrote "Memoirs of the Life, Works, and Correspondence of Sir William Temple, Bart." (London, 1836) and "Commentaries on the Historical Plays of Shakespeare" (2 vols., London, 1840).
Traces of old mounting on verso and slight brownstaining.
