Author: 
    
            
                    James Clarke Hook (1819-1907), English painter, Member of the Royal Academy        
         
 
      Publication details: 
    
            
                    On letterhehad of Silverbeck, Churt, Farnham, Surrey. 23 October 1895.        
         
 
1p., 12mo. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. Written in response to a request for an autograph, and signed at foot 'Yours Truly | Jas: C. Hook'. Above this, beneath the heading 'Lincoln', Hook has transcribed twelve lines from 'Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21 1865', beginning 'He knew to bide his time, | And can his fame abide,' and with 'J. R. Lowell.' at the end.