Autograph Letter signed “Hen. Stanley ” to Madame Olga de Norikoff accepting a dinner invitation

by Henry M. Stanley

$1,750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 vols. 7 x 4-1/4 inches, framed to 8-1/4 x 5-3/4 inches. Fine. Item #56270 The famed African explorer, soon after his return to England and the publication of HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE 1872 , writes that he would “would be delighted to have one dinner light, sociable, agreeable, etc, etc on Saturday 8 P.M.” and states that any other hour would leave him “perplexed, as I am with my work.” Madame de Norikoff wrote the

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