[Sir Henry Taylor, poet etc] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Miss Moseley'.

English poet, essayist and civil servant (1800-86), author of 'Philip van Artevelde' (1834). Four pages, 12mo. Very good, on somewhat grubby paper. He is glad that his correspondent's aunt 'is getting so well thro' the seventies of this winter & the changes, which are perhaps more trying than a constancy of coldness. Indeed what were in my time the established notions about the evil effects of cold weather seem to be subverted, & not without reason. The Invalids here whom we knew, the younger Miss Ogle & Sir Henry White, are all the better for the cold & so is Mrs George Roberts & Canada & Colorado are now the approved resort of Patients with complaints of the chest. The world seems rather long in learning what is best for it or else its inhabitants change fm. generation to generation & require different treatement.' He is sorry for Sir Rutherford & Ly. Alcock & for all old Parents where their daughters marry themselves wrong. I suppose Sir Lewis is acting upon his determination to live somewhere in the Country. [...] Everybody here is reading Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood with all the interest that brightness & truth can inspire. I wish you wd. read it to yr. Aunt.' Signed 'Henry Taylor'.