Letter II. To the freemen of Alnwick. My good friends and brethren, I told you in my first and introductory letter, that I believed I could let you a little into the reason of the four and twenty's not being favoured with any answer from the great man to their proposals for the division and improvement of the ...r, and at the same titue frame a sort of an apology for him.
| Author/creator | Richardson, Robert |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Alnwick] : [Printed by T. Alder], [1781] |
| Description | 12 pages ; 8⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | To the freemen of Alnwick. Letter II |
| General note | Signed at end: "An old Craftsman", i.e. Robert Richardson, junior, clerk to the Alnwick Council. |
| General note | Dated at head: "December, 6, 1781". |
| General note | The second of seven letters published between 28 November 1781 and 1 February 1782 (cf. C. Clark Burman, 'An account of the art of typography as practised in Alnwick from 1781 to 1815', Alnwick, 1896, pp.10-11). |
| General note | Place of printing and printer's name from the colophon of the first letter. |
| General note | The "great man" = the Duke of Northumberland. |
| General note | Title from drop-head title and opening lines of text. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from British Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T225253. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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