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Autograph Letter Signed, to “My dear Lucas”, about the baptism of his son. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. 1 Trevor Place, Newquay, 1881. Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903), Dean of Canterbury and author of ‘Eric, or Little by Little’. “I shall offer an earnest prayer that the little one may be blessed by God & may grow up to be a profitable member of the Church & Commonwealth, & hereafter a partaker of the immortal glory of the Resurrection. I thank you & Mrs Lucas for doing me the honour of giving him my name.”