[J. A. Fuller Maitland [John Alexander Fuller Maitland], music critic and musicologist.] Autograph Letter Signed, regarding a lecture the recipient is about to give on 'a subject which is especially dear' to him.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 3pp, landscape 12mo. On bifolium of grey paper. The letter is complete, on what appears to be the upper half of a 4to bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with stamp, postmark and remains of autograph address on reverse of second leaf, with traces of mount. Signed ‘J A Fuller Maitland’. Begins: ‘Dear Sir / Very many thanks for your book, the second copy of which has just come. I shall hope to be able to come & hear your lecture on a subject which is especially dear to me. I wish I had the full report of a lecture I gave in the summer at Leighton House on the same subject, from a specially musical point of view.’ He will be publishing ‘the substance’ of the lecture in the ‘Nineteenth Century’. He ends with reference to ‘Triana’, an article by him in the Dictionary of National Biography, and ‘[Hirst?] & Rimbault’.