['The Laureate of Lancashire': Edwin Waugh, dialect poet associated with Manchester.] Two Autograph Letters Signed to the Blackburn poet J. T. Baron

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. Both in fair condition, worn and aged. The first item with one fold. Both signed ‘Edwin Waugh’ and addressed to ‘Mr. J. T. Baron’. ONE (14 February 1889): 2pp, 12mo. On the rectos of a bifolium. He would have answered Baron sooner, had he not been ‘tossing to and fro a good deal lately’. He thanks him ‘very heartily for the kind feeling expressed in your lines addressed to me on the 73rd [the 3 underlined three times] anniversary of my birth, in the Blackburn Times’. He finds it ‘a cheering thing’, at his time of life, ‘to feel that I have the friendship and good wishes of so many of the people of my native county’. He ends by reiterating his thanks for his ‘personal kindness, and friendly tribute’. TWO (24 February 1889): 1p, 12mo. He read Baron’s ‘lines on “Art and Song” with great pleasure’, and thinks he ‘ought to do more of the same kind’. He ends by stating that he is enclosing a copy of his ‘latest photograph’ (not present).