[Meier Aaron Goldschmidt, publisher and author] Autograph Letter Signed M. Goldschmidt to My dear Madam (Mrs Bensusan), establishing social contact in light hearted way.

Three pages, 16mo, bifolium, last page laid down and slightly larger paper, good condition. Text: When I was at your door some time back and left my card, I thought: Well, Mrs. Bensusan has, no doubt, completely forgotten, that there exists in the world such a being as I, for how can any one living in the great world of London remember a person not seen for two whole years, and what have I done to be particularly remembered? Thinking thus I walked through the streets homeward bound and soon after left town for Sydenham. | Now I beg you to judge, how agreeably surprised I felt, when yesterday on my return to town I found your kind letter and beautifully worked presents. Really, I have no words to thank yoy, but I hope one day to send you a work that may prove me not unworthy to be remembered. | Pray be assured, that I deeply sympathize with you in your sorrow, but I trust, that your seclusion will not prevent me from the honour of seeing you soon, when I shall take the liberty of calling, the period of my stay in London being of limited duration. | I am going to remain for a few days longer at Sydenham [...] where I shall feel happy to receive the visit of Mr Bensusan, which you have the kindness of promising me. Note: On 30 June, on a visit to Mary Howitt [...], one of the translators of Goldschmidt's novel [En Jode], Goldschmidt met a 'Mistress Bensusan', probably the Esther Levy Bensusan to whom Mrs. Howitt dedicated her translation. Goldschmidt frequently visited the Bensusan family [...]. (Kenneth H. Ober Meir Goldschmidt and the main currents in 19th Century Judaism [Nordisk Judaistik, vol. 22, No. 1, 7-45; online]).