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Scan 130
John Askew, the Stanhope violin maker, 1914
21 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 100. See the scan on archive.org.
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1Newcastle-on-Tyne,
2April 16th, 1887.
4Mr. John Askew, Stanhope,
5My Dear Sir,
6 I should be very glad to see you here on Monday at the time named, and will go up to Mr. Ainsworth's afterwards.
7 I like the violin last tried very much.
8 Yours truly,
9 JOSEPH RODDAM.
11* * * *
13Letter sent to Mr. W. H. T. Maddison,
14Darlington (copy).
15 Stanhope, October 24th, 1890.
17Dear Mr. Maddison,
18 Should you have a little time to spare when you are first at Stanhope, I should like you to see a violin I have got lately; it is very old, but by what maker I am unable to say. It has a Nicola Amati* ticket inside date 169—something, but of course that is wrong, as Hart says in his book that he died in the year 1684.
20* See page 36.
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