Autograph Letter Signed "L.H. Thebaud" to [H. Beresford] Hope, British diplomat (Washiongton etc).

Four pages, 8vo, conjoint, good condition. Thebaud is a schoolboy and about to "take Harvard examinations" he informs Hope). The parental home in Madison NJ is shut up, but he is "sponging" off an uncle. He hopes Hope will visit New York so that they can "see Broadway by night together". He had been staying with a family where he had some German "hammered into [his] head. He recalls their joint experience in Dresden (and discusses Hope's successor in a room). He hopes he will enjoy New England and congratulates him on his success in exams [presumably Foreign Office]. Enclosed: A piece of paper on which his Madison address is written, with an open invitation.