SAINTSBURY, George Edward Batemen (1845-1933). Literary scholar and historian.
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent, 2 pages 8vo (laid down on the remains of an album leaf), 2 Eton Terrace, Edinburgh, 22 September 1911. A curmudgeonly refusal to lecture ('It is rather hard that a very busy man should have to write twice on the same subject').

'... I say nothing about expense, exertion, the labour of preparing a lecture for an institution with which I have not the slightest connection etc. ...'

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