| Description Of Item | Cutting relates that the unnamed 'King of all Dwarfs', a Spanish man reputedly fostered by the Viceroy of Manila, was taking visitors at his residence at Savile House, Leicester Square. Having recently married a woman from Birmingham, the Spaniard was planning on travelling to Europe once his wife was returned to health. The cutting details the heights, weights and ages of husband and wife. Text is verbatim to OBJ/PAM/1/12, but is taken from a different publication. See also OBJ/PAM/1/41-43.
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