MacDONALD (George, 1824-1905, Novelist & Poet)

Autograph letter signed with the recipient's name scrubbed out, asking them to "send me the copies usually allowed to authors as son as ever you can. I mean of 'The Vicar's Daughter', Yours very truly ...", 1 side 8vo., The Retreat, 22nd July

MacDonald's best known works are Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, and At the Back of the North Wind. He was also a prominent theological thinker, rejecting reformed attitudes of penal substitutionary atonement and wrote extensively on divine punishment.
The Vicar's Daughter (1871), a sequel to Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood and The Seaboard Parish

Item Date:  1872

Stock No:  39385