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Document number: 417
Date: 14 Oct 1854
Dating: 1854 from book publication date
Watermark: 1854
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: DESPREZ Philip Charles Soulbien
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Tettenhall Road
Wolverhampton

Oct 14.

Sir,

I have just published a New Work on the Apocalypse <1> the object of which is to shew that the prediction received its accomplishment soon after it was uttered –

I should esteem it a favor if you would allow me to send you a Copy, the price of the Book is 8/6 – I have the honor to be Sir

Your obedt & humble Servt

Philip S Desprez
Lecturer of the Collegiate Church Wolverhampton, & for many years Chaplain to the Laycock Union –

Talbot Esqre
Laycock Abbey


Notes:

1. The Apocalypse fulfilled; or, an Answer to Apocalyptic Sketches (London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1854). This dates this document to 1854.

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