engineer (1771-1834), deputy comptroller of the Royal Mint, and treasurer to Queen Adelaide. Autograph letter signed ("Jn Barton"). Royal Mint. 8vo. 1 page on bifolium.
$ 268 / 250 €
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To a John Porter, with a promise to take care of a procurement for Miss Middlemass: "Being quite at a stand still at this place we have nothing worth showing to strangers [...] I shall be most happy to attend to your Acquisition for Miss Middlemass [...] (am only returned from Bushey to-day)". - Some duststaining, traces of old mounting to the reverse.