Autograph Letter Signed ('W H Russell') from the war reporter on The Times William Howard Russell to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, praising him fulsomely on the creation of his baronetcy.

3pp., 12mo. Gilt-edged bifolium. Fair, on aged paper, with the reverse of the second leaf backed with part of the leaf on which the letter was previously laid down. A letter of extraordinarily fulsome praise, written on the creation of Murchison's baronetcy, beginning: 'My dear Sir Roderick Murchison | Permit me late tho' it be to express to you the great pleasure which the recognition of your long continued laborious & most signal services to Science on the part of the Country has afforded to me in common with all who knowing them, are aware that the mark of His Majesty's person which you have received is a very inadequate representation of what would be given to you if the R[oyal]. G[eographical]. S[ociety] & the scientific world had their will.' The letter concludes with more personal observations.