Berkeley

Roden Noel Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel or Noël poet and Cambridge Apostle. The last page of an Autograph Letter Signed bearing his signature and a long postscript regarding sad scenes in London.

ref. 25842 — ‘Kew Green. Kew. / Feb 1. 1869’. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In fair condition on aged paper with strip of sunning and evidence of mounting on reverse which also bears contemporary pencil annotation: ‘Honble Roden Noel / Son of Earl of Gainsborough / A considerable writer & Poet / Author of “A little Child’s Monument” & other Poetry’. Folded twice. The signature is large and firm but rest of his handwriting is appalling. The page carries the letter’s valediction with date and address and a seven-line postscript: ‘. Kind regards . How sad is the . London! I have been visiting a district . since I have been there & the scenes one witnesses are sometimes most sad.’ ‘Kew Green. Kew. / Feb 1. 1869’. unknown