LUCY AIKIN - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 1/26 - HFSID 72909
Price: $160.00
LUCY AIKIN. Autograph Letter signed: "L Aikin", 1p, 3½x5¼.
Albion St., January 26, n.y. To "My dear Madam", in full:
"I assure you that mere ceremony would not stand in the way of my
availing myself of your obliging invitation for tomorrow evening; but a previous
engagement puts it out of my power. Yours sincerely'. Lucy Aikin
(1781-1864) was part of a very talented English family. Her father, John
Aikin, was a medical doctor and influential essayist and biographer. Her
brother, Arthur Aikin, was a noted chemist and mineralogist. Her aunt, Anna
Letitia Barbauld, was a poet, essayist and author of widely used children's
primers, a woman whose outspoken radicalism offended English mores of the time
but who has been rediscovered by modern feminist scholars. Lucy Aikin herself
was best known as a historian. She published biographies of British monarchs
Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I, and of other prominent persons. She helped
preserve the memory of Anna Letitia Barbauld, Romantic poet and social
reformer who was influential until her poem 1811, opposing Britain's
war against Napoleon, turned opinion against her. Mounting adhesive remnants
show through at corners and along left edge. Pencil notation (unknown hand) in
upper right corner. Minor nick at upper right edge. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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