[Lord Braybrooke, the first editor of the diary of Samuel Pepys.] Autograph Letter Signed regarding the ‘Memoir of Ambrose Barnes’, and Audley End.

See his entries in the Oxford DNB (where his edition of Pepys is described as ‘an amateurish travesty’ of the transcript) and the History of Parliament. 2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged and folded twice. Good neat signature: ‘Braybrooke’. The recipient is not named, but the name of the editor of the work mentioned by Braybrooke is given as 'C. .S.' He thanks him for ‘the curious Memoir of Ambrose Barnes which has just been transmitted to me through Sir Francis Freeling’, and assures him that ‘it shall be carefully preserved amongst the other valuable Tracts with which you have been so good as to enrich my Collection’. He hopes that when he revisits Cambridge he will ‘see Audley End in a less unfavourable state than it must have appeared last September’. The letter ends: ‘I trust you have not given up exploring Parochial Registers for the benefit of antiquarians’.