Autograph Letter Signed from the writer and suffragist Augusta Webster to 'Mrs Picton'.

4 pp, 12mo. Bifolium. 89 lines. Text clear and complete. She begins by apologising for the delay in sending an autograph: 'In atonement I give you Anthony Trollope's signature, which perhaps you have not got.' Reports that they 'went to the Italian lakes this summer. We aimed at Venice but gave it up because of the cholera.' She regrets that the recipient's 'friends book & chart do not prosper. Mr Bowes (the Macmillan of the shop) thought the chart a good plan and likely to succeed, except that the size would be against it'. She has been 'very busy at present, being on the committee of a meat association which is being got up among a number of families in Cambridge. I had an affecting interview with my butcher, one of the least dishonest in his prices, but I could not persuade him that it would be for his good to come to smaller profits. We shall part good friends, but we shall part.' Her husband and F. D. Maurice are that year's two new Final Science Examiners. Describes the nature of this 'cheap work'. Describes the behaviour of her young daughter Margaret ('reproving and instructing' her father, 'eating her fruit with the peel on').