ELIOT, GEORGE. 1819-1880.
Autograph Letter Signed ("MA Lewes"). 3½ pp, 8vo, The Priory, North Bank, Regents Park, February 28, 1868, to Oscar Browning, Esq., very light browning at folds.
Eliot thanks a friend for his help while visiting Cambridge: "We promised Mrs. Green, to whom we had the pleasure of being introduced by you under the Cambridge sunshine, that we would send her the address of a certain maker of Feetwarmers, she & I sympathizing in the experience of cold feet... I thank you sincerely for the addition you caused to my pleasant memories of Cambridge ..."
Oscar Browning, a historian and educational reformer, served as a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge, from 1875 until his retirement in 1909.
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