Autograph Letter Signed from the poet and patron of the arts John Kenyon to 'Mr. Curtis' [George William Curtis of the New York Tribune], inviting him and his brother to dine with 'our genial friend Felton'. With portrait.

Author: 
John Kenyon (1784-1856), poet and patron [George William Curtis (1824-1892), American traveller; James Burrill Curtis (1822-1898); Cornelius Conway Felton (1807-1862), President of Harvard College]
Publication details: 
39 Devonshire Place [London]; 19 May [1847?].
£80.00
SKU: 11378

2pp., 12mo. Very good. Neatly presented, With the blank second leaf of the bifolium tipped in onto a large leaf of cream paper, with the engraved portrait of Kenyon (7 x 8 cm), extracted from a contemporary magazine, laid down above it, both items surrounded by a ruled border. Kenyon begins the letter: 'I have a male party to dine with me on Saturday next - consisting of persons whom you would I think like to meet - our genial friend Felton among them. If yourself and your Brother would join us at 7 punctual - twould make up our eight - ten - Indeed I have partly kept two places under the hope of your arrival'. According to the American National Biography, George William Curtis travelled abroad as a New York Tribune correspondent between 1846 and 1850, accompanied part of the time by his brother James Burrill Curtis. The Felton papers at Harvard include a letter from Kenyon, in which he 'discusses Felton's travel schedule in England'. He is 'more desirous' to see Curtis as he is out of town the following week.