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Letter from Agnes Strickland, Southwold, to an unidentified recipient, 1871 February 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
433271
Accession number
MA 23530
Creator
Strickland, Agnes, 1796-1874.
Display Date
Southwold, England, 1871 February 6.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2019.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Acquired as part of a collection of letters by important 19th-century woman writers, including Hannah More, Amelia Opie, and Harriet Martineau. Each item in the collection is cataloged separately.
Provenance
Purchased at Bonhams, London, 27 March 2019, lot 202.
Summary
Thanking the addressee for a book (possibly titled Poetic Zephyrs), but writing that he has mistaken her vocation, that she is not a reviewer, and that she therefore must decline to review his work.