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Letter from Arthur Helps, Bishop's Waltham, to an unidentified recipient, 1847 August 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
103246
Accession number
MA 23298
Creator
Helps, Arthur, Sir, 1813-1875.
Display Date
Bishop's Waltham, England, 1847 August 22.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.0 cm
Notes
Written from "Vernon Hill / Bishop's Waltham."
Endorsed.
Removed from an extra-illustrated copy of John Forster, The life of Charles Dickens (London : Chapman and Hall, 1872-1874); Call number 509- D548 F.
Summary
Expressing his interesting in acquiring a copy of "Historia natural y moral de las Indias" by José Acosta and asking about various editions; adding "I wish you would kindly see about this for me forthwith. If you find a copy that pleases you & is not unreasonable (though how you, or I, should know what is reasonable, is not very clear) you may send it down to me by railway."