Autograph letter signed to a "Mr Speilmann"
Author:
Lewis S. Benjamin ("Lewis Melville")
Publication details:
30 Sept. 1903
£50.00
SKU: 1272
One page, 4to, arsing from his choice of items for his edition of Thackeray's works which Spielmann considers "indiscreet" because of their anti-Catholic posture, "but I believe not one in a hundred will read the minor items. The 'Jew' passages touch nearer home. But these are not in 'Punch' but embedded in stories."