Autograph Note Signed
Autograph note signed "H. Martineau", 8" x 2", mounted to a larger sheet 9.75" x 6.5", c. 1818, at a time when the sixteen year old future writer began losing her senses of taste and smell and was becoming increasingly deaf; preferring to stay indoors than socialize, in full: "I return with books with hearty thanks. It is not often one has such a treat. I have read them with infinite pleasure. No one has touched them but myself &..... More