Autograph letter signed from Arthur Hodgson, Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, to William Winter [manuscript], 1888 June 28.

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Autograph letter signed from Arthur Hodgson, Clopton House, Stratford-on-Avon, to William Winter [manuscript], 1888 June 28.

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Thanks Winter for sending him a copy of his book, which he finds very interesting. Asks Winter not to mention anything about Mr. [George William?] Childs' nephew to Mr. Henry Irving, for fear of wounding his "very sensitive feelings."

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