67. Letters & cut signatures to the Rev. Richard Perkes, including: Queen Victoria, Napoleon III & Eugenie, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Clanricart, W. Harrison Ainsworth etc., many with envelopes, most tipped-in or pasted down, a few loose, 19th century morocco album, g.e., sm. 4to, v.s., v.d. [nineteenth century].
est. £100 – £150
“I am afraid I shall not be able to afford you the information you require. It is nearly forty years since I wrote ‘Guy Fawkes’, and so cannot, at this distance of time, recollect whether the sturdy farmer, Perkes, of Hagley Park, was a fictitious character or not. My impression is that he was a real personage, as almost all the minor characters connected with the conspiracy were carefully introduced in my story… .” - Harrison Ainsworth.