Documents associated with: Paddon, Samuel Wreford
Record 14 of 36
System Number: 09376
Date: [March/July 1882][1]
Author: JW
Place: London
Recipient: James Rennell Rodd[2]
Place: [London]
Repository: [Published][3]
Document Type: ALS[4]
THE FIELDING,
KING STREET,
COVENT GARDEN.
My dear Rennell
come round in the morning if you can early - at about 11 - o'clock -
An amazing letter from Paddon[5] - Awful games! -
Always
[butterfly signature with sting on tail]
Monday night.
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Notes:
1. [March/July 1882]
Dated from reference to Paddon (see below).
2. James Rennell Rodd
James Rennell Rodd (1858-1941), 1st Baron Rennell, poet and diplomat [more].
3. [Published]
Facsimile published in John Wilson sale catalogue, Witney, no lot number, described as 'Autograph letter signed [...], 1 page 8vo (oblong) [...] £85.00'. Formerly in the possession of Lord Cromer, Cromer Autograph Albums, II, 89.
4. ALS
Letter written at right-angles to the printed address.
5. Paddon
Samuel Wreford Paddon (b. 1843), diamond merchant and collector [more]. JW's correspondence with Paddon between 10 March and 14 July 1882 about the misdeeds of Charles Augustus ('Owl') Howell (1840? - d.1890), entrepreneur [more] is recorded in Whistler, James McNeill, Correspondence. Paddon Papers. The Owl and the Cabinet, London, [1882]. The letter referred to is likely to be one of five letters from Paddon.