Beschreibung:

Kingsley (Charles, 1819-1875). Novelist, Church of England clergyman and controversialist. Autograph Letter Signed with initials 'C.K.', The Cloisters, [?Westminster Abbey], Wednesday, no date, c. 1874, to 'My dear little man' [his son Maurice, born 1847, or Grenville, born 1848], 'I am delighted with the report from mother... ', giving moral guidance and thoughts about duty and competitiveness, 'when you find you can do as well as other boys you will be soon trying to do better than they. The feeling of honourable rivalry comes in - the feeling which makes a horse go, and a hound go, and a cock fight... if horse, dog, or cock don't care about being beaten, we call them asleep/a cur/or craven... ', brown stain to inner left margin of first page (with some see-through) from old tape removal, just touching initial letter of each line but not affecting legibility, a few spots, 4 pages, 16mo, together with: Tennyson (Alfred, Lord, 1809-1892), end of an Autograph Letter Signed, 'A. Tennyson', c. 1880s, apparently to J.W. Locker (inscribed in another hand lower left), torn from the bottom of a page of black-edged mourning paper with horizontal closed tear repair to verso, the letter ending, 'I had accepted Mr Knowles's offers of hospitality, and I am here with him at present tied up with a cold', slip measures 200 x 110 mm overall, plus Browning (Robert, 1812-1889). English poet and playwright. Autograph Signature in blue ink, cut from a document, some see-through from ink to verso, a few minor scratches to signature, some creasing and soiling, overall 70 x 90 mm Provenance: The Kingsley letter was gifted by Kingsley's daughter, the novelist Mary Harrison (1852-1931) to Lady Mary Colyer-Fergusson (1871-1964) of Ightham Mote, Kent; and thence by family descent.