Invoice
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
Dec 1950
Materials
Paper
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 3138421.3.2
Summary
A green paper invoice and white paper receipt stuck to the bottom left quarter of the invoice for the book in which they are kept. Invoice: 's 1802 M... William Straw Esq:.... Dec. 6. 1950. 7, Blyth Grove, Worksop Notts. DR. TO Telephone: A. & F. DENNY, LTD. Also at CITY 1896 ___________________ 163a Strand, 1897 BOOKSELLERS W.C.2 1898 ___________________ 31-33, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, E.C.4 ACCOUNT DUE AND PAYABLE AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS...' Receipt; '31 - 33 Queen Victoria St. No. 23564 London, E.C.4 Received from ... William Straw Esq the sum of ......one.........pounds ..................ten........shillings and .... --- pence for A. & F. Denny, Ltd. With thanks ........Clive Pearley Date...4/12..........1950'. These are kept in the book 'The poems of Alexander Pope. Vol III i' by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) (record 3138421, all twelve volumes). Alexander Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior (1646–1717), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith (née Turner) (1643–1733), who were both Catholics. Edith's sister Christiana was the wife of the famous miniature painter Samuel Cooper. Pope's education was affected by the recently enacted Test Acts, which upheld the status of the established Church of England and banned Catholics from teaching, attending a university, voting, or holding public office on pain of perpetual imprisonment. Pope was taught to read by his aunt, and went to Twyford School in about 1698/99. He then went to two Catholic schools in London. Such schools, while illegal, were tolerated in some areas.