Autograph letter signed (“W.C. Harris”), to “My dear Sir”, dismissing the possibility that gold had been discovered during his mission to Shoa, Abyssinia (“…Mr Johnson has been afflicted with brain fever, which rendered him visionary during his stay in Shoa. As far as I am aware there is no foundation whatsoever for the reported existence of gold near the King of Shoa’s palace…Mr Johnson was exceedingly troublesome in Shoa, and did his utmost to defeat the objects of the British Govt and his sole view in now writing to Sir Robert Peel is to make it appear that I overlooked an important geological feature which he detected…”), four pages, 8vo, light dust-staining, St James’s Square, 27 December 1843
Autograph letter signed (“W.C. Harris”), to “My dear Sir”, dismissing the possibility that gold had been discovered during his mission to Shoa, Abyssinia (“…Mr Johnson has been afflicted with brain fever, which rendered him visionary during his stay in Shoa. As far as I am aware there is no foundation whatsoever for the reported existence of gold near the King of Shoa’s palace…Mr Johnson was exceedingly troublesome in Shoa, and did his utmost to defeat the objects of the British Govt and his sole view in now writing to Sir Robert Peel is to make it appear that I overlooked an important geological feature which he detected…”), four pages, 8vo, light dust-staining, St James’s Square, 27 December 1843
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