Printed Covering Letter, signed by steward 'A Bazzoni', intended to enclose a ticket to the Society's Anniversary Dinner.

4to: 1 p. Printed on the recto of the first leaf of a bifolium of paper watermarked 'R BARNARD | 1828'. Fifteen lines of text. Text clear and complete on aged, creased paper with chipping to extremities, and the two leaves of the bifolium nearly detached. Docketed in contemporary hands '819' at the head of the printed page, and 'No. 72' on the reverse of the second leaf 'No. 72'. Begins 'SIR, | HAVING consented to act this Anniversary as Steward for the AGED POOR CHARITY, I have great pleasure in forwarding a Ticket; which, when you consider the extensive benefit administered by this excellent Institution, I have no hesitation in supposing you will oblige me by making use of. [...] THE AGED POOR SOCIETY relieves at present upwards of 50 poor persons with an annuity, that protects them from the necessity of imploring parish aid; and consequently affords the POOR CATHOLIC the sweetest solace that age and infirmity can possibly experience, - [...]'. Founded in 1708 and active until around 1980, the Aged Poor Society was a Roman Catholic charity for the relief of poor Catholics of 'good character'. In 1851 it founded the Saint Joseph's Alms Houses at Brook Green, Hammersmith. Augusto Bazzoni, whose address in 1846 was 128 High Holborn, London, was author of several works in Italian printed in London in the mid-nineteenth century