Autograph Letter Signed ('Anna Jameson') from the Irish writer Anna Brownell Jameson, to an unnamed male recipient, regarding his gift of 'two very pretty and useful books'. With an engraved portrait of a sixteen-year-old Jameson by Henry Adlard.

4pp., 12mo. On bifolium with mourning border. 36 lines of text. Good, on aged paper. She fears she has appeared 'most ungracious & unthankful' for not acknowledging his 'kind present of two very pretty and useful books'. She hope he will excuse her, as she 'received them in the country, whither I had gone to recover from a sharp illness'. Since her return 'the dangerous illness of a dear friend' has left her with 'neither thought nor leisure'. She will read the books carefully, and as she meditates 'a neighbourly visit to my good friends Mr & Mrs Cunningham I hope to meet you'. The Scottish poet Allan Cunningham and his wife lived at 27 Lower Belgrave Place. The engraved portrait of Jameson, with a facsimile of her signature, is by 'H Adlard', and shows her 'at the age of 16, from a miniature by her Father'. It is in fair condition, on lightly-aged paper, with traces of glue from mounting on the reverse.