JEKYLL, Joseph. 21077

£45

Description

A good Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs. Trench, on medical matters, thanking her for the “Translators”, assuring her that “The Muses are by no means the least efficient allies of Sir Henry Halford …” 2 pp. 7 x 4 inches, with the signed address leaf. Spring Garden, 5 June 1826. Joseph Jekyll (d.1837), lawyer, wit and politician. “[Sir Henry Halford] well knows that Medicine & Poetry have the same tutelary Deity & is too good a Classic to refuse a Consultation with those nine learned Ladies.”