Welcome to Richmond Autographs, where you will find a variety of letters, documents, manuscripts and signed photographs for enthusiasts in all fields.
Whether you are looking to enrich an existing collection, or have just discovered the excitement of collecting autographs, or even if you would just like one letter, signature or photograph of your most admired figure, I will endeavour to help you. The writers here are famous, infamous, heroic, notorious, great and humble, but everything will have something to arouse your interest and open doors to further research in a particular period or field.
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An honest man points out "fraudulent practices"
Sir Denis Gauden obviously had quite a lot to say in this very closely-written very long letter.Who was Sir Denis Gauden you ask? An honest man, it seems, and victualler to the Navy in the late 17th century. A friend of Samuel Pepys, and well-known to Pepys through his work. In fact, Pepys spent the last days of his life in Gauden's Clapham house, where he died. But Gauden had fallen on hard times by then and had sold his...
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