Autograph Letter Signed 'Wm Fermor' to unnamed male correspondent.

4to, 2 pp, 14 lines of text. On aged and creased paper, with traces of cream paper mount adhering at foot of reverse. Showing the grammatical indifference of the English eighteenth-century upper classes. '[...] nothing but indisposition shall prevent my attendance at the meeting you was to good as to inform me that is to take place on Monday next of all the Catholicks of great Britain'. He is 'ill with a violent Cold sore Throat and fever' and doubts whether he will be 'well enough to undertake the journey to Town so soon'. If he cannot he asks the recipient to 'have the goodness to name me a member of the Board'. While in Italy on the Grand Tour in 1758 Fermor sat for Batoni.