Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified person, "Saturday."

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Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified person, "Saturday."

Emphatically refusing a request to speak at a dinner for a society of musicians, a task to which he couldn't be any less suited due to a strong aversion to music - "shame on you, shame on you ... could you find no other object for that biting irony of yours!"

1 item (4 p.) ; 18.4 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7776861

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