French Revolution – William Augustus Miles extraordinary autograph letter, significantly not signed, nor addressed, but dated Paris, January 27th 1791, three pp 4to. This letter bears no address panel, but has clearly been folded for transmission through the post, and presumably was sent as a secret insert in another. It was clearly sent to Cocks from a reference at the end. This remarkable letter is Miles’ description of what he saw around him and begins: ‘...eighteen months have elapsed since the wild and licentious spirit of freedom broke loose in this country & produced a revolution the most extraordinary of any recorded in the annals of mankind ...the kingdom and particularly the metropolis is in a state of anarchy as lamentable as it is dangerous...’ He then describes exactly what he saw.