PARRY

(William Richard, 1804-1877, Physician to Westminster Hospital), asking if you could get me admission to the Royal Italian Opera next Saturday?... I have not heard 'Patti' & have not had a chance of going to the Opera this season, and apologising for my coolness in making this request, with a contemporary unsigned photograph showing him full length, whimsically seated with his left elbow on a poster advertising his 'The Wedding Breakfast or Roseleaf, Every Evening', 3¾ x 2¼, the letter 3 sides 5¼ x 3¼, 15 Pembridge Place, Bayswater, June 26th no year, circa