HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider (1856-1925). Novelist.
Autograph Letter Signed to his cousin [Frederick Bazett Doveton], 2 pages 8vo with blank leaf, 24 Redcliffe Square, 23 January 1889. Reluctantly ('I am adverse to passing judgment') commenting on his cousin's poetry.

'... Since you ask me however, I like your fishing poems & those descriptive of Nature the best, & among the prose pieces I think I prefer 'on the South Downs' & 'In Dreamland'. ...'

£250 [No: 25076]