ANNE RITCHIE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 73199
Price: $120.00
ANNE RITCHIE. Autograph Letter signed: "Anne Ritchie", 2p,
4¾x6¾ with blank integral leaf. St. George's Square (London), n.d. To "My
dear Frances", in full: "I have some friends (Mrs. Irving the
children's governess) who have started a poultry farm at Cheltenham & I am
writing to them to send you some of their produce. A turkey is possible - if not
a pair of chickens. I wish you all good things in the coming year. I was so glad
to hear of Charlie being able to lecture & I hope you are all three well in
your best degreee - as we are I am thankful to say. Yours affectionately".
Ritchie (1837-1919) was the daughter of William Makepiece Thackery and was
mainly educated by him. She wrote eight novels, but was best known for her
memorials for other writers, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Charles
Dickens. She wrote a biographical introduction to her father's collected works.
She married her cousin, Richmond Ritchie, a civil servant who was knighted in
1907. Her step-niece was Virginia Woolf, who portrayed Anne Ritchie as "Mrs.
Hilbery" in Night and Day. Slightly creased.
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