BRITISH AUTHORS]. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph letter signed to "My dear friend," 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, n.d., 2 pages, 12mo, on rectos of two leaves, in sepia ink on imprinted letterhead, framed with a portrait, 300 x 490mm. (11 1/2 x 19 1/4in.) over-all : "...here I am, pretty well and all squared with my people. I know no way of thanking you for all you have done. Perhaps, after all, the confident trust with which I came to you was better than any thanks after the event...I am afraid Fanny [his wife] is not very bright in health, but she says she is taking care and fate has handled us so lightly hitherto, that I almost begin to think it means us well in the main. Her letter to me was mostly about you...pray forgive my silence. There is a heavy nervous reaction after my struggles and excitements, and I am so stupid and sluggish as to be hardly sane."--SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph letter signed ("A.C. Swinburne") to an unidentified bookseller ("Dear Sir"), Brentwood, n.d., 1 page, 12mo, brown ink, slightly age-toned at edges, framed with a portrait, 470 x 240mm. (18 1/2 x 9 1/2in.) overall, frame worn , ordering books: "Will you send me...the copy, if on hand, of Dumas' 'Dieu [Dispose?],' Brussels edition which I saw when last in town? If any of the books I have ordered should come in, please forward them..." (2)
BRITISH AUTHORS]. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. Autograph letter signed to "My dear friend," 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, n.d., 2 pages, 12mo, on rectos of two leaves, in sepia ink on imprinted letterhead, framed with a portrait, 300 x 490mm. (11 1/2 x 19 1/4in.) over-all : "...here I am, pretty well and all squared with my people. I know no way of thanking you for all you have done. Perhaps, after all, the confident trust with which I came to you was better than any thanks after the event...I am afraid Fanny [his wife] is not very bright in health, but she says she is taking care and fate has handled us so lightly hitherto, that I almost begin to think it means us well in the main. Her letter to me was mostly about you...pray forgive my silence. There is a heavy nervous reaction after my struggles and excitements, and I am so stupid and sluggish as to be hardly sane."--SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. Autograph letter signed ("A.C. Swinburne") to an unidentified bookseller ("Dear Sir"), Brentwood, n.d., 1 page, 12mo, brown ink, slightly age-toned at edges, framed with a portrait, 470 x 240mm. (18 1/2 x 9 1/2in.) overall, frame worn , ordering books: "Will you send me...the copy, if on hand, of Dumas' 'Dieu [Dispose?],' Brussels edition which I saw when last in town? If any of the books I have ordered should come in, please forward them..." (2)
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