Autograph letter signed : London, to [William Angus] Knight, 1884 May 9.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to [William Angus] Knight, 1884 May 9.

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Apologizing for not speaking at Knight's festival: "I wish I could have overcome my scruples and apprehensions. It is hard to say -- when kind people press one to 'just speak for a minute' -- that the business, so easy to almost anybody, is too bewildering for oneself."

1 item (1 p.) ; 17.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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