Author: LECKY, William Edward Hartpole
Title: Autograph signed letter (ALS) to an admirer, dated "Xmas day. 1891."
Description: 6 lines on paper printed "38, Onslow Gardens, S.W.". Small trace of glue on verso, from an album or an envelope. Lecky has "much pleasure in sending you my autograph". He hopes "that you may work with so much perserverance and success that Pugh may some day ask for yours". William Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903) was an Irish historian and politician, married to Elisabeth van Dedem, herself a historian, and also lady-in-waiting of Queen Sophie of the Netherlands.

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