Letter, [18]93 Apr. 4 : the Chestnuts, Guildford [England], to Mrs. Seymour [i.e. Mrs. Rev. Henry Fortescue Seymour], [Nettlecombe Rectory, Taunton, Somerset, England?].

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Letter, [18]93 Apr. 4 : the Chestnuts, Guildford [England], to Mrs. Seymour [i.e. Mrs. Rev. Henry Fortescue Seymour], [Nettlecombe Rectory, Taunton, Somerset, England?].

Looks forward to his upcoming visit with the Seymours and refers to his understanding of "Mary's [Seymour?] mysterious sentence" in which she had used the "rhetorical device of 'aposiopesis.'"

3 p. on 1 leaf : Holograph signed.

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