Autograph Letter Signed from the poet and patron of the arts John Kenyon to 'Mr. Curtis' [George William Curtis of the New York Tribune], inviting him and his brother to dine with 'our genial friend Felton'. With portrait.

2pp., 12mo. Very good. Neatly presented, With the blank second leaf of the bifolium tipped in onto a large leaf of cream paper, with the engraved portrait of Kenyon (7 x 8 cm), extracted from a contemporary magazine, laid down above it, both items surrounded by a ruled border. Kenyon begins the letter: 'I have a male party to dine with me on Saturday next - consisting of persons whom you would I think like to meet - our genial friend Felton among them. If yourself and your Brother would join us at 7 punctual - twould make up our eight - ten - Indeed I have partly kept two places under the hope of your arrival'. According to the American National Biography, George William Curtis travelled abroad as a New York Tribune correspondent between 1846 and 1850, accompanied part of the time by his brother James Burrill Curtis. The Felton papers at Harvard include a letter from Kenyon, in which he 'discusses Felton's travel schedule in England'. He is 'more desirous' to see Curtis as he is out of town the following week.