BOWRING

(Florence Horatia Nelson, née Suckling, 1848-1923, Writer, wife, 1876, of Captain Thomas Suckling, 1844-1922), saying Miss Kinder interested me in you & your note shows how prettily & gracefully you can recognize a favour... Autographs are interesting studies & the field... is as wide as the civilized world - With compliments to your mother, with whose leave an old man may subscribe himself Yours affectionately, 1 side 6¾ x 4½, no place, 8th October