Author:
Charles Mackay (1814-1889), Scottish poet and journalist
Publication details:
7 March 1853; 21 Brecknock Crescent, Camden Road Villas, [London].
Three pages, 12mo. Very good: lightly aged and with the merest glue spot to blank verso of second leaf of bifolium. Mackay's 'signature' appears to be in the same hand as the rest of the letter. He has had a 'severe attack of inflammation of the eye', and this has prevented him from reading or writing during the previous week. For the same reason he is replying to Alford's letter of 1 March through an amanuensis. Three weeks previously Mackay 'received a packet from Mr.
