Scope and arrangement
· To Mr. Fell : 1 autograph check signed : 28 Jun 1784 : (MISC 3968) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [no place] : for one quarter of a year's rent. Mounted in the grangerized copy of Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age. Shelved with bound manuscript volumes under "Hazlitt.".
· To Davies Giddy [later Gilbert], scientific administrator and applied mathematician : 1 receipt signed : [ca. 1798] : (MISC 3751) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [no place] : "No. 681"; with tax stamp in blind; for payment of fourteen shillings for subscription to the never-published third volume of The Diversions of Purley; body of the document in the hand of an amanuensis.
· To Thomas Hardy, radical and a founder of the London Corresponding Society : 1 letter : 2 Nov 1798 : (MISC 4277) : 1 page (double sheet) : from Wimbledon : in the hand of his daughter; begins, "If you are well and intirely [sic] disengaged on Sunday next, I shall be happy to see you at Wimbledon..."; with a later light pencil note suggesting that the "John Horne Tooke Esqr." written on the address leaf is Tooke's autograph. Mounted in Pforzheimer copy 2 of the second edition of Tooke's Diversions of Purley, Part I. Shelved with oversized books.
· To Richard Payne Knight, art collector and writer : 1 receipt signed : [ca. 1798] : (MISC 4279) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [no place] : "No. 757"; with tax stamp in blind; for payment of fourteen shillings for subscription to the third volume of The Diversions of Purley; body of the document in the hand of an amanuensis. Mounted in Pforzheimer copy 2 of the second edition of Tooke's Diversions of Purley, Part I. Shelved with oversized books.
· To Mr. Minoch : 1 receipt signed : 2 Aug 1798 : (MISC 3676) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [no place] : "No. 587"; with tax stamp in blind; for payment of fourteen shillings for subscription to the third volume of The Diversions of Purley; body of the document in the hand of an amanuensis.
· To William Shepherd, Unitarian minister and politician : 1 receipt signed : [ca. 1798] : (MISC 4023.07c) : 1 page (partial sheet) : [no place] : "No. 1051"; with tax stamp in blind; for payment of fourteen shillings for subscription to the third volume of The Diversions of Purley; body of the document in the hand of an amanuensis. Mounted in the Mary Ann Humble autograph album. Shelved with oversized manuscript volumes.