[ Tom Taylor, dramatist etc ] Autograph Letter Signed "Tom Taylor" to "[Thomas] Woolner", sculptor and poet

Author: 
Tom Taylor, dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch magazine
Publication details: 
Lavender Sweep, [Clapham Common, London], 30 Oct. 1877.
£56.00
SKU: 16996

Three pages, 12mo, bifolium, faint foxing and minor damage, text clear and complete. " The son of my excellent friendm Robt Harrison, Librarian of the London Library, is an applicant for the assistant Librarianship of the Royal Academy. [...]" He gives information about him (education, languages, travels, familiarity with "library work" (as assistant to his father), current filling in work in the Observatory at Kew. He solicits Woolner's vote, and adds, in a postscript, that the applicant is the grandson of an artist.