Autograph letter (fragment) signed.
No place or date.
Oblong 16mo. 1 page (3 lines). Mounted on slightly larger backing paper.
€ 200,00
To the advocate and historian Sir Archibald Alison: "Yours sincerely, John Blackwood".
John Blackwood was editor of "Blackwood's Magazine", a Tory-supporting miscellany, originally called the "Edinburgh Monthly Magazine". He is credited with discovering the genius of George Eliot, whose works he undertook to publish and which whom he enjoyed an intimate friendship.
With collector's ink note to backing paper, slight brownstaining.