Letter by William Etty to an unknown recipient. Etty says he would be delighted to receive the recipient's young friend from Dulwich, before moving onto 'business' - he talks about The Lady Chapel and the Abbey at Reading, and the 'iniquitous assassination of the noble Faringdon the abbot who refused to surrender'. He comments upon the destruction of the Gothic chapel and the loss of ancient stone, 'swept away by the rude hand of modern barbarism'. He recalls that Saint Mary's in York used to be a pig sty.
