KESWICK

['I want to be understood': Frances Rolleston, abolitionist, educator, author and painter.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Miss Hilditch’, regarding 'knowledge of divine truth' and the book she is publishing ('Mazzaroth'?).

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Frances Rolleston (1781-1864) of Keswick, abolitionist, educator, and author of Mazzaroth
Publication details: 
‘Thursday’ (no date or place). [Before the publication of Mazzaroth in 1862?]
£50.00

See the 2017 biography by Jane S. Poole, ‘Frances Rolleston / British lady, scholar and writer of Mazzaroth’. 1p, 32mo. Fourteen lines, written in a small hand on one side of a slip of paper. In fair condition, aged and worn, with glue from mount adhering to reverse, which is addressed ‘For / Miss Hilditch’. The letter reads: ‘My Dear Miss H./ / from your love of the scriptures & knowledge of divine truth your impression of my work is most valuable to me. I send more “Authorities”. do they amount to proof? I think they do.

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