"the tempter must bear the blame of the broken resolution"
Autograph letter signed ("C. Babbage").
Dorset Street, [London], 2. VII. 1840.
8vo. 1 p.
€ 3,500.00
To Mrs Horner, accepting an invitation: "I had resolved to be very industrious and dine out no more but the tempter must bear the blame of the broken resolution [...]".
Old folds and traces of former mounting. The year supplied in another hand.
