GULL (Sir William Withey, 1816-1890, Physician to Queen Victoria, suspected to be ‘Jack the Ripper’)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed signed in full (William W. Gull) to “Dear Mr Nettlefold” thanking him for his “kind note. I should have been glad of an hour’s visitation[?] in your beautiful grounds if I cd have afforded myself the leisure but at this season I am always rather overdone. Lady Gull is away in Guernsey on a visit to her Brother & Sister & to her old home there or she wd join her thanks to mine for your kind invitation. She will not be back so early as the 12 of July. I will send her your note. I am very glad to hear that the boy is getting better. This attack seemed to me clearly attributable [?] to fatigue...”, 2 sides 8vo., place and crest removed, 23rd June

The recipient if possibly Hugh Nettlefold (1858-1893) a Birmingham businessman and entrepreneur who died early from complications after a bout of flu. There is an Alpine Garden in the Birmingham Botanical Gardens dedicated to his memory with a plaque which reads - “To commemorate invaluable services to the society first as honary secretary and later as Chairman of Committee this portion of ground laid out for the reception of rock and bog plants is named The Hugh Nettlefold Alpine Garden opened May 29 1895”

Item Date:  1884

Stock No:  41832      £750

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