Four letters upon literature and [the] range of interest which lit. properly belongs to women : autograph manuscript fragment : [place not specified], addressed to his daughters, [1837-1842]

Caption title from recto of sheet 1; with opening address: "My dear daughters,-".
Manuscript draft with extensive corrections, written in different inks on four sheets of paper of different weights, with sheet 1 watermarked "1837" and sheet 3 watermarked "1842".
Sheets numbered in pencil in an unidentified hand: "leaf 1(r)" to "leaf 4(r)."
Referred to under the alternate title, Letters from a Modern Author to his Daughters on the useful Limits of Literature considered as a Study for Females, in: Japp, A.H. Thomas De Quincy: His Life and Writings. With Unpublished Correspondence. London : John Hogg, 1890, p. 220.