Identity area
Reference code
Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/1/3/32
Unique identifier
GB 275 Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/1/3/32
Title
Letter from Thomas Paine to Henry Festing Jones, dated 26 January 1903
Date(s)
- 26 Jan. 1903 (Creation)
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1 sheet paper
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
ALS, addressed from 9 Albert Road, Regent's Park, N.W. Thanks him for the copy of 'the little opuscle about Butler'. Provides information about his family connections, and refers to his childhood meeting with an old lady, Mrs Turner, who had seen a performance of the Messiah conducted by Handel in person (see Henry Festing Jones's 'Memoir' of Butler, vol.1, pp.230-31).