Autograph Letter Signed ('F E Kingsley') on behalf of her husband [to Rev. Frederick Gard Fleay, 1831-1909].

Author: 
Mrs Frances Eliza ('Fanny') Kingsley (nee Grenfell) (1814-1891), wife of the English novelist Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
Publication details: 
11 August 1864; place not stated.
£56.00
SKU: 5656

Three pages, 12mo. Good, on aged and lightly stained paper. She is writing because her husband, who is 'on the eve of starting for Scotland', 'is very far from well today'. He asks her to thank her correspondent 'for the Translations & the Pamphlet on the Revelation' [Fleay's 'The Book of Revelation symbolic not special, being the substance of Sermons [...]', 1864]. 'The latter he feels is written on the only rational method & he likes it very much, as he does the Catullus' [Fleay's 'The poetry of Catullus, to which is added The vigil of Venus', 1864]. Kingsley 'strongly' advises Fleay to 'put [himself] in communication with the Editors of Frazer's & Macmillan's Magazines making any use [he likes] of [Kingsley's] name'. 'The Editor of Frazers is my brother in law James Anthony Froude now at Ringrove, Salcombe, Kingsbridge, Devonshire'.