Autograph Letter Signed from the Irish poet Aubrey de Vere, containing an appreciation of the theologian Richard Holt Hutton, with references to the new edition of his poems, the publishers Macmillan & Co, Baron von Hugel, and the Tennyson family.

16mo, 4 pp. 64 lines. Text clear and complete. Hutton was a friend of both de Vere and his correspondent, and 'this will always remain a link between us; for no one who ever knew him can forget him; & no one who remembers him can ever cease to honour him'. Hutton lived on for a month after de Vere 'was staying here last, & during that time I must have seen him some five or six times in his beautiful home on the banks of the Thames - It was a touching thing to see his patience, & the devotion to him of his niece.' Hopes they may meet within the next two weeks, and perhaps 'take a drive together up to that beautiful Hampstead, & have a chat there with the Baron von Hugel'. The last of the six volumes of a new edition of his poems will be published in a fortnight, with many of the poems 'considerably reduced in length', and therefore 'strengthened'. He resents 'having to pay the Macmillans about £60 for bringing out' each of the volumes. In a postscript states that he has 'just returned from Aldworth' where he has been 'passing a few days with the Tennysons'. Hallam Tennyson's biography of his father has been 'an unprecedented success'.