[Sabine Baring-Gould, ghost story writer, antiquarian and folklorist.] Autograph Letter Signed to 'Miss Hall', giving news of friends in Germany, and of his intention to travel to Bayreuth to hear Wagner's 'Parsival'.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On bifolium. Thirty-lines of text in his distinctive close hand. Addressed to 'Dear Miss Hall' and signed 'S. B. Gould'. In fair condition, lightly aged, with slight loss to the upper corners of the second leaf from removal from mount. Folded twice for postage. He begins by stating that he will be writing to 'the Chaplain & also to some cousins of mine who are at Freiburg, & who are nice cheerful people - the Snows'. He informs her of the death of 'Herr v. Hollern', and the marriage of 'Charlotte' to 'a sick man, but not the one she wanted which was a young officer'. He contrasts her 'shallow' character with that of 'Hermine', before turning to the possibility of the recipient paying the Baring-Goulds a visit. He is 'going this summer to Baireuth [sic] to hear the 'Parzival,' [sic] & shall go on to Freiburg to see old friends'. In 1904 Baring-Gould published 'Siegfried, a Romance; Founded on Wagner's Operas, Rheingold, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung'.