Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr Field, inviting him to dine, at short notice, to meet a fellow passenger Lyulph Stanley, and “you would also meet our friends the Russell Sturgises & no one else”.2 pp. 6 x 4 inches, fine.17 Arlington Street, 12 January, no year given.
John Lothrop Motley (1814-1877), American historian, author of The Rise of the Dutch Republic (1856) and other works.