Letter concerning bodysnatching in Tottenham

Item author: Charles Grey
Item date: 17 March 1798
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £1,750
Item date acquired: 2010
Item institution: Bruce Castle Museum, Archives & Local History Service
Town/City: London

Charles Grey was a London associate of a firm of Alnwick attorneys named Adams; the firm's papers were the subject of the above sale. His letter to an unnamed correspondent gives a rare and remarkable account of bodysnatching activity in Tottenham.

Item Provenance
Mullock's, Ludlow, sale, 2 March 2010, lot 232