
Luke Batterham
Senior Valuer
This auction has ended. View lot details
Sold for £281.25 inc. premium
Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialist
Senior Valuer
John Hughes, father of the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, was author of An Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone (1822), illustrated with his own etchings (for further details, see his entry in the ODNB). Four later letters by him to Harriet Thayer, by now married to Baron Thiébault and living in France, are included in the lot: these are written from London and Berkshire between 1829 and 1833. Also included is a letter by his daughter, the workhouse inspector Jane Elizabeth Senior, announcing his death in 1857.