Autograph letter signed, to Mrs. John Hughes mother of the Thomas Hughes? , accepting an invitation

by John Kenyon

$200 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2-1/2 pp, on single folded sheet. 1 vols. 16mo. Mounted to larger sheet. Item #217122 The famous poet, philanthropist, friend of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Lamb, the Brownings, et. al. -- apologizes profusely for not answering your kind letter of last winter ; and after several explanations of the lapse of time, All this is to make myself out sufficiently meritorious as not to be entirely unworthy of your thoughtful attention. I do not care to

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