Frolic Lady, Signed (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No D/J. First Edition. Slight loss to base of spine. Light rubbing to edges and corners of boards with some light marks. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Signed by the author on title page. Darkening to pages with some foxing. Small indentation to front board and rear board. Darkening to spine side of top text block. Signed.

See his entry and hers in the Oxford DNB. Both items in good condition, lightly aged, and both on bifoliums folded for postage. Both signed 'Robert Murchison' and addressed to 'Dear Lady Theresa'. The subject of the first letter is Sir Thomas Villiers Lister (1832-1902), son of Lady Theresa Lewis by her first husband the novelist Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842). ONE ('Monday Mng'): 3pp, 12mo. On his arrival at Burnham Beeches the previous afternoon he 'found all the party sported with young Ladies in riding habits & your boy looking very well & in high spirits, but without a voice'. They started on their 'frolic', and 'were wending our way through the beeches (Mr Grote principal chip)' and 'encountered a well dressed gentleman in black on seeing whom through the glade the gay gentleman's face lengthened, for it was his "Dominie" going to dine with Lord Somebody & take his pupil home in the Evening'. He continues in this elevated style, describing how it was decided that the boy 'should enjoy a little more holyday [sic]'. He leaves him 'laughing & well & safely ensconced in the Beeches'. TWO ('Friday Evng'): 3pp, 12mo. Begins: 'Knowing the lively sympathy you entertain for Madme Graham's position, I hasten to tell you, that I have this Evening forwarded a letter to Lord Clarendon [her brother] which has rejoiced me as much as it will rejoice her. The High Court in Edin[burg]h have rejected the application for the sequestration of the rents of the [?] of [Drynne?] with costs.' The second half of the letter is hard to decipher, but he continues by explaining that 'the case is already pretty much decided', with reference to the Lord Advocate.