Autograph letter signed T. Campbell to Mrs. John Hughes, accepting her invitation to breakfast

by Thomas Campbell

$350 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

One page, in ink. 1 vols. 4to. Mounted to larger sheet, small tear at outer edges. Item #217156 A witty acceptance letter to the mother of Thomas Hughes author of TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS , from the Scottish poet Campbell 1777-1844 , author of THE PLEASURES OF HOPE. Accepting the invitation to breakfast with her and the Bishop of Llandaff , he remarks amusingly: The breakfast hours being an hour acceptable to myself - a prim pure

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