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Published by 13 March ; 17 Dover Street W. London, 1901
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On his letterhead of coronet and letter R. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once. He is sorry to refuse the Duke, but I could not really take the chair at a dinner in aid of the Westminster Hospital Funds , as he has promised Lord Cadogan to to [sic] act in that capacity in aid of [same?] Chelsea Hospital. Under these circumstances, I am sure you will excuse me. .
Published by 18 March ; on letterhead of 47 Portland Place W. London, 1903
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
3pp, 12mo. Bifolium, folded once. In good condition. 29 lines of text. He thanks her for her kindness, in the midst of your great sorrow , in writing to inform the Robertses of her husband s death. We have often talked of you both, and wondered where you were living. He had thought it was somewhere in the valley of the Thames, at least I thought you told me so when last I met you both walking in Regent Street - some 10 years ago . After a brief comment on Tierney s ill health, he recalls how He, Alfred Torrens, and I sat next to each other at Mills School. Torrens died a few weeks ago, and now I am the only one left. He ends by sending his and his wife s condolences, and in a postscript signed R asks to be informed should you come to London . In his 1914 biography, Walter Jerrold writes that between 1842 and 1845 Roberts was pupil of a Mr. Mills at Hampton .