Autograph letter signed.
Malvern (Brougham House), 27. XII. 1897.
8vo. 4 pp. on bifolium.
€ 850.00
To the novelist Jean Middlemass (1833-1919) on the progress of time and the advantages of old age: "I was so glad to hear of you. I had often wondered where you had gone and what you had done with yourself. I hope your stay [...] will be pleasant enough to induce you to settle somewhere in London [...] I find old age has infinite compensations. If we have lost the grand activities [...] we can give so much [...] to others! I feel like a cornucopia [...]".
With embossed address and traces of old mounting; some yellow staining on the verso.
