Travel & Exploration
A LETTER FROM ISABELLA BIRD
BISHOP
(Isabella Lucy, née Bird, 1831-1904, Traveller & Authoress)
Autograph Letter signed ‘Isabella L. Bishop’ to Mrs Faithfull
saying that her “husband tells me that you kindly invited me to meet some friends of yours, and had mentioned Wednesday afternoon... so I write to say that Lady Moncrieff has proposed to bring Miss Fraser to see me on Wednesday afternoon as I did not feel able to go to them and that on Friday I am always obliged to remain at home. I hope I may soon have the long deferred pleasure of meeting Mr Faithfull’s acquaintance...”, 2 sides 8vo., 12 Walker Street, letter headed with the Bishop family crest, “Hinc Virtutis Honos” (”from this comes the honour of virtue”), Saturday evening, no date, circa
Item Date: 1880
Stock No. 43856