Author:
Thomas Bywater Smithies (1817-1883), temperance and animal welfare campaigner
Publication details:
16 March 1861. On letterhead of 13 Barnsbury Square, London.
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. Folded for postage. Signed ‘T. B. Smithies’ and addressed to ‘W. Allan Esq / 17 South Grove East’. The subject is Smithies’s monthly ‘improving paper’, the ‘British Workman, and Friend of the Sons of Toil’, which he had launched in 1855, and which Allan is clearly offering to distribute gratis.
