Autograph letter signed.
8vo. 1 page.
€ 250.00
To a lady: "We have two copies of Stewart's tokens [?] & therefore I cannot purchase your friend's. I have no doubt we receive regularly the Bouquet for which I beg again you will accept my thanks [...]".
The "Bouquet" was a literary magazine run by aristocratic women based on the far side of Regent's Park. Only subscribers were allowed to contribute, and each had to choose the name of a flower to sign her work: Jean Middlemass was "Mignonette", Lady Hester Browne "Bluebell", and the Knatchbull sisters "Kingcups". The young Christina Rossetti contributed Italian verses under the name of "Calta".
For the last ten years of his work life Panizzi served as Principal Librarian of the British Museum.
Traces of old mounting to verso.
