CHARLES (Elizabeth Rundle, 1828-1896, Historical Novelist, Hymn Writer and Translator)

Autograph Letter Signed 'Bessie Rundle Charles', with transcription, to Miss Patteson, sister of John Coleridge Patteson, (1827-1871, first Bishop of Melanesia), explaining about her and her mother's illness, continuing "It is very pleasant to me that those verses touched you. They are from lines about my husband. The volume in which they are is called Songs new & old by the author of the Chronicles of the Schönberg Cotta Family ... I think I gave you the verses I enclose [not present] ... These also are in the volume. Very often I think of ... our conversation at which you said of your brother I wish when summer comes you would come to us for a night. Do if you can", with a P.S. "I have (by legal declaration) prefixed my father's to my married name; as his only child wishing to carry on his name a little longer", 3 sides 7" x 4½", Combe Edge, Hampstead Heath, N.W., 'Wednesday' no date, circa

'The Chronicles' were written in 1863 in answer to a request for a story about Martin Luther, and were translated into many languages, including Arabic and many Indian dialects.

Item Date:  1880

Stock No:  54673      £175

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