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Content summary: John Britton at 20 Rosamund Street, Clerkenwell to WmC- thanks him for his hospitality. He stayed ten days at Fonthill 'Mr Beckford most pleased with the same'. He has visited Bowood. The Earl of Radnor offers 'any assistance relative to Longford'. Has written to Mr Yockney, 'this man of great Genius in Obscurity'. The drawing of Salisbury Cathedral for Encyclopaedia Londoniensis is finished.

Summary: 15 November 1796-John Britton at 20 Rosamund Street, Clerkenwell to William Cunnington I- thanks him for his hospitality. He stayed ten days at Fonthill 'Mr Beckford most pleased with the same'. He has visited Bowood. The Earl of Radnor offers 'any assistance relative to Longford'. Has written to Mr Yockney, 'this man of great Genius in Obscurity'. The drawing of Salisbury Cathedral for Encyclopaedia Londoniensis is finished.


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