Autograph letter signed : London, to Lady [Augusta-Mary Coventry] Holland, [1848] Mar. 28.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Lady [Augusta-Mary Coventry] Holland, [1848] Mar. 28.

Declining a dinner invitation and apologizing for an unspecified offense, saying, "I am beginning daily to see the folly of my ways, and that people are a hundred times more frank kind & good natured than a certain author chooses to paint them."

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