$145.00
Description
Description: In this undated autograph letter signed, Froude writes to “My dear Mrs. Botta,” regretting that he cannot visit but “I have undertaken a piece of literary work which will require me to be much by myself…. Also the Berean people want to be in constant communication with me — and that will be impossible if I am too far off…. I am like a bear tied to a stake from which he is vainly struggling to free himself. And I tied myself to it!”
James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) was a prominent 19th century English historian, novelist, biographer and editor. His works included the 12 volume History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada and several books on the life of Thomas Carlyle.
Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891) was an American writer and socialite who hosted a literary salon in New York entertaining such writers as Poe, Emerson, Trollope, Thackeray, etc… Froude was in the United States on a lecture tour in 1872 which may help date the above letter.
A folded sheet of 8″ x 10″ ruled paper with manuscript on three pages. Item #A01895
Condition: Mailing fold lines, short edge separations reinforced with archival tissue/tape, mounting remnants on blank last page. Generally good condition.