[Henry Hart Milman, historian, Dean of St Paul’s and Professor of Poetry at Oxford.] Autograph Letter Signed to the novelist Thomas Henry Lister.

See the two men’s entries in the Oxford DNB. In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. 2pp, 16mo. Signed ‘H H Milman’ and addressed to ‘My dear Mr Lister’ (the item is from the papers of Lister’s wife Lady Theresa Lewis (1803-1865; ODNB). He begins by congratulating Lister on the birth of his daughter ‘and the safety of Lady Theresa’. He thinks that Lister has been ‘quite right to take the precaution of [?] the young Lady, being so delicate [?], but I trust that the precaution will prove unnecessary - I will take care of the entry in the Register if it is left with the Clerk.’ He ends with complements ‘to Lady Theresa and Mrs Villiers’.