Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Arthur Smith, 1859 Jan. 26.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : London, to Arthur Smith, 1859 Jan. 26.

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Sending him letters from James Thomas Fields, Richard Grant White, and Cornelius Conway Felton; asking him to discuss the "American proposal" [a proposal for an American tour] with Thomas Coke Evans; noting, "I have a very grave question within myself, whether I could (for a private reason, rendering a long Voyage and absence particularly painful to me), go to America at all"; saying that he has told the Americans that the "business arrangements of the Readings" are in Smith's hands.

1 item (2 p.) ; 17.9 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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