Decorated with flourishes in red, green, and black ink of exotic birds and people Leaves pasted on larger pages, 27.8 cm. Leaves enumerated in pencil: 2-10, 12-16, 18-21 Partial contents: Numeration Table, Addition of Integers, Troy Weight, Averdupoize Weight, Cloath Measure, Subtraction of Integers. See Inventory for complete contents Three of the Tables bear business letters on verso dated: June 10, 1803; July 30 and Aug. 7, 1806 (pencilled leaves 3, 4, 10) Sarah Pashley's name appears twice on pencilled leaf 18
Accompanied by a copy of warning letter to Lord Monteagle. Autograph document 1 p. 15 cm. Includes transcription This is apparently the only private letter containing a detailed contemporary account of the Gunpowder Plot. The fact that the letter is dated from Gray's Inn indicates that the writer had legal connections, and this may account for his inside knowledge of the affair less than a week after the event. The enclosed copy - also in Pattricke's hand - of the warning letter to Monteagle contains a few verbal variants from the original. At the foot is Pattricke's note that it was "Delivered to my Lorde of Mountegles page inclosed in a letter of his" and a list of the gunpowder and "other instruments" found in the cellar with Guy Fawkes. From the Catesby collection
In black ink Page reference to Fabricius in pencil Removed from Hieronymus Fabricius, ab Aquapendente, Opera physica anatomica... Padua, Sumptibus Roberti Migletti, 1625 (Lilly QM5 .F12 A2 1625).
Peabody was a homeopathic pharmacist doing business in Boston. He was Nathaniel Hawthorne's brother-in-law, Hawthorne having married Sophia Peabody. The Clapp referred to in the letter was Otis Clapp, of the Boston pharmacy Otis Clapp which continued to operate until the 1950s, "and without benefit of a soda fountain and such-like."