Autograph Letter Signed to the Revd Thomas Helmore.

Divine and author (1806-82). The recipient (1811-90) was a musical writer and composer, and the priest-ordinary of the Chapel Royal, St James's. Three pages. Poor: creased, dogeared, frayed, and with traces of previous mount adhering to blank verso of second leaf of bifoliate. He received the note and inclosure the day before. 'We have copied the beautiful Kyrie Eleeson, and I now return it with many thanks for the trouble you have so goodnaturedly taken in my behalf.' He wishes he could have been at Leeds for what 'must have been a truly gratifying sight. I was far less pleasantly employed, - not seeing a Church as it ought to be, but visiting with sorrow & pain the dilapidated fabrics wch come under my inspection in this deanery.' Hopes that many may imitate 'Dr. Hooks exertions'. Signed 'F: E: Paget'. According to the DNB William Farquhar Hook (1798-1875), vicar of Leeds, built a new parish church in 1841.