[Edith Emerson, dau. Emerson; autograph-collecting ] Autograph Letter Signed "Edith Emerson Forbes", to a "Mr. Thorndike".

Four pages, 12mo, in large readable hand, bifolium, fold marks, otherwise good condition. "I return the papers you were so kind to lend me and let me keep to show to my travellrs. | I have been looking over a little collection of notes my father received and some my husband and I kept as autographs to see if we had any duplicates you might like - I have found four which I shall be gald to have you keep if they interest you, but I think it very likely you may have no association with these writers - they are a note to my father from Richard Monckton Milnes, the poet [...] Arthur Helps who wrote Friends in Council - he was much liked as an essayits in my youth - William Allingham the Irish Poet whoi wrote The Touchstone - and that little ballad for children | 'Up the airy Mountain' | and many other good things [...]. He was a devoted friend to Mr Carlyle - and the fourth is a pass Mr Tyndall wrote for me - [...]".