Autograph letter signed with initials : Hastings, to William Allingham, 1854 June 26.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : Hastings, to William Allingham, 1854 June 26.

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Mentioning that Miss Siddal has "benefited a good deal by her stay in Hastings" and has been working on sketches to illustrate the ballads. Discussing "the mighty Mac Cracken" and his recent attempted sale of several pictures by Hunt, Millais, Brown, Hughes " & several other pictures." Mentioning that MacCracken noted "that he should part with neither of mine," and stating "Full well he knows that the time to sell them is not come yet." Noting that he urged MacCracken to place reserves (most of which were not met) on the pictures he attempted to sell through Christie's, and that "he seems hard up." Describing a crier going up the street and wishing that one could "put all one's plagues & the skeletons of one's house into his hands, & tell them & sell them without reserve.'" Mentioning an encounter with "the cordial stunner." With a postscript on the envelope.

1 item (4 p.) ; 17.8 cm. + envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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