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LUCY AIKIN - THIRD PERSON AUTOGRAPH LETTER - HFSID 296544

She accepts an invitation for the evening, signing in the third person Third Person Autograph Letter. 4½x2½ affixed to a 6x3½ piece of paper. No place, no date. In full: "Miss Aikin will have great pleasure in availing herself of Mr. & Mrs.…"

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LUCY AIKIN
She accepts an invitation for the evening, signing in the third person
Third Person Autograph Letter. 4½x2½ affixed to a 6x3½ piece of paper. No place, no date. In full: "Miss Aikin will have great pleasure in availing herself of Mr. & Mrs. Newman's very obliging invitation for this evening. Thursday morning". 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. Paperclip indentation at top right. Light foxing. Otherwise, fine condition.

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