[ Fitzedward Hall, American orientalist and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. ] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Mr. Harrison', regarding the stock of the London bookseller Edward Lumley.

3pp., 8vo. Bifolium on grey paper. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn. Harrison had previously procured, 'for the Library', a copy of 'Romantic Fiction', 'published by Edward Lumley, 40, Gower Street': 'At the end of the volume there is a catalogue of various books published by the same person. | Wishing to procure several of these, I wrote to my bookseller, Trübner, to get them for me. | Trübner says, however, that they are not to be had, and adds, “Lumley died years ago, and his entire stock was dispersed.”' It would be a 'real favour' to Hall if Harrison would 'kindly ascertain […] who furnished Romantic Fiction' to him, as he would then 'have a clue to the present whereabouts of the rest of Lumley's publications'. It is not clear which library Hall is referring to. He had been dismissed from the Librarianship of the India Office (1869).