Autograph Letter Signed ('Tho Wilde') from the Solicitor General Sir Thomas Wilde to an unnamed individual, on 'The Lithgon Case'.

3pp., 12mo. Fair, on aged and worn paper. Wilde explains that he had previously written regarding the case, but 'by some accident the Letter has been mislaid (I believe) among my mass of papers, and I therefore fear it may not have reached you as I cannot learn who among the Servants dispatched it'. In the lost letter he stated that the wishes of his correspondent 'had been anticipated by the case respecting the Lithgon Family having been answered and also stating that the only point submitted to me regarded the legal presumption of Survivorship among several persons the respective times of whose Deaths could not be ascertained'. The context of the letter has not been discovered.