Verlag: With partial Boston postmark. No year but between and, 1844
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
The recipient Lady Theresa Lewis (1803-1865) was successively wife of the novelist Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842) and the Liberal politician Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863), all of whom have entries in the Oxford DNB. The present item is an 11.5 x 8 cm panel of light-brown paper from the front cover of an envelope. Part of a large Boston postmark is at the left, with a manuscript '2' written over a few letters of the address. All in Ticknor's hand, it reads: 'Lady Teresa Lewis / South Place, / Knightsbridge / London, SW.', with the signature 'Geo: Ticknor' at bottom left. From the papers of Lady Theresa Lewis, which also contain a letter from Ticknor to her first husband Thomas Henry Lister, and two letters to her from the American historian William Hickling Prescott.
Verlag: 'Brunswick Hotel Jermyn Street London / May 26', 1838
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität Signiert
Signed 'Geo. Ticknor'. The male recipient is not named, but the item is from the papers of the author Lady Theresa Lewis (1803-1865), successively wife of the novelist Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842) and the Liberal politician Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863), all of whom have entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of a bifolium, with a trace of glue from mount to the second leaf. In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. He is 'much interested that the Life of Ferdinand & Isabella written by a friend in America should be known in England, where it has already obtained some reputation & is well liked by Hallam, Allen & Southey.' He asks him to 'do me the favour to accept a copy of it from me. If it serves for nothing else, it may serve to remind you of the kindness you and your friends have shown Mrs. Ticknor and myself ever since we have been in Europe.' From the papers of Lady Theresa Lewis, which also contain two letters to her from Prescott.