Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Alexander William] Kinglake, [1852] Oct. 27.

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Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Alexander William] Kinglake, [1852] Oct. 27.

Bidding him farewell, and remembering their friend Eliot Warburton, who died on a voyage to the West Indies that year.

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