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TM/2/4/1-lLetter from W Baines, 10 June 1790


Letter from W Baines to Thomas Manning from Denver Sluice. He has just arrived at Denver Sluice but has forgotten to bring things from Cambridge. He asks Manning to go to Grubbs to buy hooks, the types and style of which Baines specifies and illustrates. He also asks Manning to send Izaac Walton’s Complete Angler. He asks that Manning sends them by the next coach. Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides. Dated 10 June 1790