Autograph Letter Signed to [Sir Samuel Smiles].

Wife of the noted Scottish naturalist (1830-82). The recipient (1812-1904) is author of the celebrated 'Self-help' (1859). Three pages, 12mo, with mourning border. Very good on slightly discoloured paper. She has found among her late husband's letters 'one from you in which you ask for any information which was in my husband's power to give about the late Mr. Robert Dick of Thurso and for any letters of his which might be of use in preparing a Memoir of Robert Dick's life'. She is enclosing a letter which may be of interest, 'although too late to be of use unless you have any idea of preparing a 2d. edition of the book.' Signed 'Jane Wy. Thomson'. Smiles's biography of the baker, geologist and botanist Dick had appeared in two volumes in 1878. There was no second edition.