[Thomas Crofton Croker (1798-1854), Anglo-Irish antiquary.] Autograph Letter Signed (to the editor of the Gentleman’s Magazine, John Bowyer Nichols), regarding mistakes in an article on Winchester House, London, with reference to Thomas Baylis F.S.A.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, on lightly discoloured paper, with thin neat strip from windowpane mount adhering to edges. Sixteen lines in a neat and stylish hand. Signed ‘T. Crofton Croker’. The recipient is not named, but is clearly John Bowyer Nichols, editor of the Gentleman’s Magazine, in whose number for April 1839 appeared an article, with engraving, by ‘E. I. C.’, on ‘Winchester House, Broad-street, London.’ Croker begins his letter: ‘My dear Sir, / I return E. I. C’s account of Winchester House. I think he is mistaken on so many points, and has omitted so much of interest that the best way of making the additions I had proposed wil be to give you a short comment on what you now print - for I require a reference or two, to be certain that I am quite right - for next month.’ He suggests that the recipient may wish to add that ‘the greater portion of the wood work has been purchased by Mr Baylis and that he is fitting up with it the kitchen and some of the new rooms of the Prior’s bank’. The Pryor’s Bank in Fulham was the residence of Thomas Baylis, F.S.A.