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Autograph letter signed : Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, to "Dear Madam" [Mrs. Alice Gill], 1899 August 24.

BIB_ID
395867
Accession number
MA 13340.26
Creator
Besant, Walter, 1836-1901.
Display Date
1899 August 24.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.3 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 30 letters and 2 addressed envelopes from Walter Besant to his typist, Mrs. Alice Gill; the letters are described individually (MA 13340.1-32).
Probably addressed to Mrs. Alice Gill, who served as his regular typist during the 1890s.
Written on stationery printed "Frognal End, Hampstead. N.W.", struck-out in ink, with the Yorkshire address written in at right.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Enclosing a manuscript with a request that he receive a typed copy in a few days.