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Henry Reeve editor of the Edinburgh Review for four decades. Autograph Letter Signed to the publisher Alexander Macmillan regarding books he intends to review by Lady Godon Duff and J. R. Seeley.

rif. 25863 — 11 May 1866. On embossed letterhead of the Privy Council Office Whitehall. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. The recipient ‘Dear Sir’ is not named but is presumably Alexander Macmillan see Oxford DNB the publisher of the two books referred to in the letter which he seems to have sent for review. The letter is signed ‘H Reeve’. Folded for postage. He begins by thanking him for sending copies of ‘Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt’ and ‘Ecce Homo’ ‘a survey of the life and work of Jesus Christ’ by J. R. Seeley which he has ‘already read with great interest’. He takes ‘a very different view of it from Lord Shaftesbury &c’ and intends to ‘take the first opportunity of saying so in the Edinburgh Review’ although he will not be able to publish the articles before the next October. He concludes: ‘Mr. Baker is wonderfully amusing & the man is a real Hero in his way.’ 11 May 1866. On embossed letterhead of the Privy Council Office [Whitehall]. unknown