HOFLAND, Barbara. 15477

£75

Description

Autograph Letter Signed, sending her correspondent “some of my Son’s Sermons”, saying she had come home in a hurry “to set hard to work for an American Annual”. 1½ pages 7 x 4½ inches, in good condition, one marginal tear. Undated, probably mid 1830s. Barbara Hofland (1770 –1844), English writer of moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. Her son Frederic, an Anglican priest, predeceased her in 1832.