[T.C. Skeat] Typed Letter Signed "T.C. Skeat" to Edward Carlson

One page, 8vo, small closed tear on fold line, mainly good. He is responding to autographs sent to him by Carlson, asking his opinion of autnenticity etc. He cites an example of a letter by Flaxman to confirm the attributuion of pone of the items. He points out that "The inscription 'Elizabeth Gaskell 1818" cannot be in the hand of Mrs. Gaskell the novelist, since her maiden name was Stevenson and she did not become Mrs. Gaskell until 1832." He goes on to a D.G. Rossetti inscription, saying that the library has no example so early, and no examples of Rossetti's mother's hand, but "the writing is clearly not that of his father, from whom we have several letters written in the same year, 1835." Carlson has annotated his respoonse to Skeat's comments in pencil in the margins, saying for example in response to Skeat's comment on Gaskell "Stupid of me not to have thought of this."