Autograph Letter Signed ('E. Lynn Linton') from the author Eliza Lynn Linton to her young friend 'Dearest little Alice'

4pp., 12mo. Fair, on lightly-aged paper with slight discoloration to inner margins from previous mounting. She thanks Alice for her 'sweet letter', and declares that she has had 'a very very pleasant visit here. I like my friends here extremely. They are my sort for all that they are strong conservatives, and they are so simple, so homely, so gentle, & I get on with them as well as - what shall I say? . as well as with you! And that has no beyond.' She discusses the weather, asks Alice to pass a message on to 'Ella' about 'Mrs Cohn', and informs her that she 'had a dear letter from yr beloved mother'. 'I am very very sorry about Miss Cullen - very!' 'Give Ella an extra kiss for me, & to Gerty & even Georgie too, & Katie' Postscript: reports the accident at Penrith of 78 year-old Lady Arthur Lennox, 'turned over in a donkey chair & might have been killed'.G. S. Layard reports in his 'Mrs. Lynn Linton, her Life, Letters and Opinions' (1901), that Linton spent much of 1882 visiting friends, including 'the Countess Ossalinsky at Penrith'.