- Subject
- Old Ashmolean
- Item type
- Object
- Provenance
- Material found beneath floorboards in the upper part of the Museum during refurbishment work in 1999.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Inventory No
- 10157
Description
Presumably this is a relic of the museum staff's lighter reading, since the text was a moralising but racy account of the reform of a London prostitute.
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