Eugenius Roche, journal editor in London. · To an unnamed Government official : 1 autograph letter (draft) signed : 5 Jun 1810 : (MISC 3364) : 5 ¹/₂ pages (3 single sheets) : from Day Office, Pickett Street : begins, "'Expeience teaches fools'; I...
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Eugenius Roche, journal editor in London. · To an unnamed Government official : 1 autograph letter (draft) signed : 5 Jun 1810 : (MISC 3364) : 5 ¹/₂ pages (3 single sheets) : from Day Office, Pickett Street : begins, "'Expeience teaches fools'; I wish to prove that it does not always teach in vain. I am the unfortunate Editor of the Day Newspaper, against whom, as well as the printer publisher, the Attourney General threatens to hurl the thunders of the law ..." Along with four other related manuscripts: a letter dated 11 Feb 1811, to Roche in the King's Bench Prison, from "G.W.M.," L[incoln's] I[nn] (MISC 3365); a letter dated 20 Feb 1811, to Roche in the King's Bench Prison, from his solicitor, John Stow (MISC 3366), discussing a draft of an offer to the prosecution; the draft mentioned in Stow's letter (MISC 3367), in a clerical hand, addressed to "Mr. Allan, Solicitor, Fredericks Place, Old Jury"; and a ca. 1891 letter from a Mary Gurney (MISC 3363), from "Planet Wood, Saunderton Lea, Prince's Risboro,' Bucks.," enclosing the other manuscripts to a Miss Hill, saying they are "the only letters I can find alluding to the birth of Mrs. Lynn (Eugenia Mary Roche) in the prison ...".
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