CHAMBERS, Robert (1802-1871). Publisher and author.
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Hall, 3 pages 8vo (traces of former mounting on the reverse), Edinburgh, 18 October 1844. Thanking her for her article on colliers and suggesting that it might be 'serviceable in some of our publications respecting that class of men', and speaking of mutual friends.

'... Another wonder I saw when lately at Newcastle was Miss Martineau recovering from internal tumour by dint of mesmerism. ... Can it be mere imagination which works such effects? For my part, I should not like to answer too positively. ...'

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