[Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, Scottish judge and literary critic, editor of the Edinburgh Review.] Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Theresa Lewis, making arrangement's for a visit, and reporting on the health of his wife 'Charly'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB, with that of the recipient Lady [Maria] Theresa Lewis (1803-1865), who lived in Kent House in Knightsbridge with her second husband Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart, her first husband having been the novelist Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842). 32mo, 2pp. On the two sides of a piece of gilt-edged paper. In good condition, folded once for postage. Signed ‘F Jeffrey’. A difficult hand. Begins: ‘My very Dear Lady Theresa / We must set out at the very lateston Monday the 6th May - But I have no Engagement after the 2d and shall be delighted to come longer on any of the subsequent days -’. He thanks her ‘for being quite well again’, adding ‘Dear Charly [i.e. [his second wife Charlotte Wilkes of New York, great-niece of the English radical John Wilkes] is not entirely [settled?] this morning - a restless night’. With regard to a fever, ‘Dr F. says nothing at all serious’. He ends: ‘She is [?] patient’.