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[ John Gibson Lockhart, Scottish author. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('J G Lockhart'), with red wax seal, to the travel writer Mrs Henry Stistetd [ Clotilda Elizabeth Stisted ], commending her book ('Letters from the Bye-ways of Italy').

Author: 
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854), Scottish author, editor of Quarterly Review, son-in-law of Sir Walter Scott [ Clotilda Elizabeth Stisted [ Mrs. Henry Stisted ] (1790-1868), Irish travel writer ]
Publication details: 
Regents Park. 5 February 1846.
£65.00

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Addressed (with seal in red wax, and two postmarks) on reverse of second leaf: 'through France | Italie | Mrs Stisted | Villa Brodrick | Bagni di Lucca'. He thanks her for sending 'a very agreeable book', which he wishes had reached him ' a year ago when the Quarterly Review was taking Lady Travellers in hand'. If 'another batch of them' should be 'ready by & bye' her book 'will run no risk of being forgotten'.

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