[Sir Henry Ellis, Principal Librarian at the British Museum.] Autograph Letter Signed to Sir George Cornewall Lewis, regarding a reader's ticket for Henry Christian, and sending information for the recipient's wife the author Lady Theresa Lewis.

See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo, on first leaf of a bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded twice for postage. Signed ‘Henry Ellis’ and addressed to ‘G. Cornewall Lewis Esq’. Begins: ‘My dear Sir / Mr Henry Christian will have a Card for our Reading Room sent to him this morning, and I will speak to Sir Frederic Madden to afford Mr. Christian the accommodation which he wishes to have in the MS. Department.’ He has a message for Lewis’s wife the author Lady Theresa (1803-1865), who also has an ODNB entry: ‘Will you have the goodness to tell Lady Theresa, that, looking the other morning for a different purpose into Murdin’s Burleigh Papers, I found that Lady Catherine Grays removal from the Tower to Pyrgo took place in 1563.’ For Lady Catherine Gray [Grey] see Wikipedia.