(son of John Coakley Lettsom), by Rachel, daughter of William Nanson, born 4 February 1796.
[2] Having ample private means, he devoted his life to a study of literature.
[2] He published a translation of the Nibelungenlied, with the title ‘The Fall of the Nebelungers; otherwise the book of Kriemhild’, in 1850.
His friend Alexander Dyce was assisted by Lettsom in his preparation of his edition of Shakespeare.
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