[Richenda Cunningham [née Gurney], engraver and sister of Elizabeth Fry.] Autograph Letter Signed ('R. Cunningham') to 'Mrs. Thompson', regarding 'my lithographs'.

2pp., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. She begins: 'I felt much gratified by yr. kind attention to my request, with regard to my lithographs; I should have sent you 2 or 3 more copies immediately, had I had them by me, in the hope that you might be able to part with them, before the season at Southwold was quite over, - I now take the liberty of charging you with 2 more copies'. She invites Mrs Thompson to visit, and states that her husband will return in three weeks from 'a miss[ionar]y. excursion to the islands of Guernsey &c'. An undated publication by Hullmandel bears the title: 'Nine Views taken on the Continent drawn on stone by Mrs. F. Cunningham'. In his biography of Borrow, Clement Shorter writes that 'Cunningham was a great supporter of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and was the founder of the Paris branch. It was speedily revealed to him that Borrow's linguistic abilities could be utilised by the Society, and he secured the co-operation of his brother-in-law, Joseph John Gurney, in an effort to find Borrow work in connection with the Society'.