[Mary Howitt] Autograph Letter Signed, "Mary Howitt" to Clara Macirone, composer.

three pages, 12mo, bifolium, fold mark, good condition. Not an easy hand. Docketed with her name and the date of the letter. She is delighted at the invitation but can't attend the concert since she'll be in North Wales at the time, and "for some months". She would like to offer the ticket to a friend of her "dear son Alfred who has just come from Australia [ ...]. We live so retired in our hill that we see but little - almost nothing of the world [of society?] or I should have occasionally, nay very often, the pleasure of meeting you [...] [Postscript] I do not know if Tennyson is in town. I know that he does not like [...?] confusion of London life [..]".