HUNT (William Holman, 1827-1910, Pre-Raphaelite Painter)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'W. Holman Hunt' to an unnamed correspondent apologising for his date reply to his invitation to a banquet "in commemoration of Shakespeare. I have caught a bad cold and the doctors have had me in hand and still prevent me from regarding myself as a free agent, or I should ... have hastened to say how proud I should be to accept it. As it is I fear that the uncertainty about my condition would make it wrong for me to engage a place on an occasion when so many will desire to be present, but if in the course of a few days my physician's better assurances are confirmed I will write again to learn whether there is any possibility of coming in to fill a chair that chance may leave vacant for I should be sorry to give up the hope altogether till the last arrangements are concluded by the Urban Club for the forthcoming anniversary of our grandest Englishman ....", 2 sides 8vo., Draycott Lodge, 8th April



Item Date:  1888

Stock No:  39826      £375

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