LINTON (Eliza Lynn, 1822-1898, Novelist and Journalist)

Autograph letter signed to 'My dear Sir', thanking him for "the cuttings - for apartments" but "in some they will not take ladies, & the other was too small. It is a very weary business ... I do not think the house is built that can hold my august person! ... If I have not disgusted Mr Drysdale he will let me go down with him again some day", and giving her regards, especially to "Miss Kinglake ... charming, intellectual & most amiable she always is", 2 sides 7" x 4½", 30 Fitzroy Street, W., 23rd October

Eliza Lynn was on the staff of the Morning Chronicle, 1848-1851, and a correspondent in Paris, 1851-1854. Her 'Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland', 1885, is largely from her own life. With an old note "Author of 'Grasp your Nettle', etc. etc.".

Item Date:  1868

Stock No:  53555      £75

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