Autograph letter signed Charles Kingsley ("C Kingsley") to John William Parker ("Dear Parker").
Ilfracombe [England]: Wednesday [c.1849].
Price: $200.00
About the item
3 pp. pen and ink on paper. 12mo. Very good.
Item #313122
A congenial letter to the editor of Fraser’s Magazine, believed to have been written the same year that Kingsley began publishing anonymous reviews for the publication. Reading: “You will receive on Friday morning the first half of [—] and the last-quarter - the other quarter you shall have the next day - I suppose you will give me about 12-15 pages+ for it will be a highly-finished article - I think not without novelty & variety of interest I am going to read up art- books - & I hope you will let me say a little more on the subject in Frasers’ some day. Send the proofs of the lectures down to me. They will be a great amusement to me. Let me hear of your good father. Yours ever faithfully”
Kingsley’s first novel, Yeast, appeared serially in Fraser’s Magazine, in 1848. Kingsley began writing reviews for Fraser’s in 1849, and continued to be a regular contributor, as well as serving briefly as the magazine’s editor in 1867.
