Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Sartoris, 27 Chapel Street, London.

16mo: 3 pp. A small bifolium (each leaf 10.5 x 9 cms) on aged paper. Discoloured strip at foot of first leaf, containing four lines of text and the signature, cut away and reattached with archival tissue, with damage to two words (not in signature). Second leaf with minor damage through breaking of seal. Good Penny Red stamp, postmarked in black, and second red postmark. The earliest she can accept the dinner invitation is the following Wednesday. 'I have many kind messages for you from Martha and Mary who would have been delighted to hagve joined in my chat with you & I know they will have a thousand things to ask about you. [...] What is your dinner hour?'