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Autograph Letter Signed, regretting having “to postpone our promised pleasure till Saturday”, a friend being required to remain in town on urgent business, which is “very provoking …” 2 pp. 6 x 4 inches, disbound. Embossed initials. 37 Gloucester Place, Thursday morning, undated. Robert Bell (1800-1867), Irish man of letters. He was a student at Trinity College, Dublin, where he founded the Dublin Historical Society, in place of the old Historical Society which had been suppressed. He is said to have obtained early in life a government appointment in Dublin, and to have edited for a time the Patriot, a government organ. He is also described as one of the founders of and contributors to the Dublin Inquisitor, and as the author of two dramatic pieces, Double Disguises and Comic Lectures. After settling in London in 1828, Bell was appointed editor of The Atlas, then one of the major London weekly papers, and ran it for many years.