JEWSBURY, Geraldine Endsor (1812-1880). Novelist.
Group of five good Autograph Letters Signed, with a few fragments, c.26 pages in all, 1864-1870 where dated

Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Butler, 4 pages 8vo, Dolaucoth, Carmarthenshire, no date Apologising for having failed to call on her or to write, and promising to visit her in London; describing her visit to Combermere 'where we had very gay doings at a horticultural meeting & flower show', and to LLanover; and describing her life in Wales:

'... By the way there is an enchantress living down in the valley who has a book fastened with seven locks - & she inherited it from a sorcerer whose family had been sorcerers for many generations & seven devils are attached to this book & do service to those to whom it belongs ...'

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Hall, 4 pages 8vo, Manchester, where she was staying with her brother, who was not well ('this place is the worst possible for him'), 18 September 1870. Regretting not having found her in London, asking her to write, and bewailing the state of the world:

'... I am so grieved for France - but the aspect of Italy is more interesting & less painfully interesting & what a strange fate for Mazzini to be in prison in Italy - when the Italians are really at last in Rome! ...'

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Scott, 4 pages 8vo (leaves detached), Ardwick, no date Returning the Chronicles and a further volume of Pepys, and expressing her dismay at the state of the world ('I may well sigh for the Milleneum. I wonder if people & kingdoms were as miserable & oppressed in the good old ancient Pagan times as they have been in the days of Christendom'.)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Roebuck, evidently John Arthur Roebuck (1802-1879), politician and MP for Sheffield from 1849 until 1868 and again from 1874 until his death, 4 pages 8vo (traces of old mounting), Chelsea, 25 November 1868. Praising his 'farewell to Sheffield' which she had read in the Pall Mall Gazette ('one of the most touching & dignified valedictions a public man ever gave'), and encouraging him to write his memoirs.

Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Julia, 4 pages 16mo, Green Heys (?Liverpool), no date A note of identification at the head, traces of former mounting. Hoping to pay a visit later in the year ('altho' a grand Ball sounds a most formidable undertaking to me who at this moment find myself suffering from a stiff neck'), and asking whether Miss Cushman's picture is yet finished.

Together with a brief letter to Mr Hobbs and two other incomplete letters.
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