Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs.Arthur Lewis, explaining that he never arrived at your festal board, due to his almost unconquerable shyness
by RALSTON, W.R.S
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About This Item
8 Alfred Place, Bedford Square, Xmas night 1879. 4 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. With the original franked envelope. William Ralston Shedden-Ralston (18281889), scholar and translator of Russian. He made two or three journeys to Russia, formed numerous literary acquaintances there, and had a lasting friendship with Turgenev. His shyness came down upon me when I got into the fog - especially when I saw a carriage drive up to your gates, with a vague gleam of radiant beings within. It seemed to me that I should be de trop, and I fled howling into the misty night.
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- Julian Browning Rare Books & Manuscripts (GB)
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- Title
- Autograph Letter Signed, to Mrs.Arthur Lewis, explaining that he never arrived at “your festal board”, due to his “almost unconquerable shyness”
- Author
- RALSTON, W.R.S
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- 8 Alfred Place, Bedford Square, Xmas night 1879
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