Autograph Letter in the third person: “Mr Millais accepts with pleasure Lord and Lady Goderich’s invitation to dinner Wednesday the 8th Inst.”1 page 7 x 4 inches, repaired tear at fold, traces of former mounting on verso. Embossed blue crest.83 Gower Street, undated [? 1850s].
Sir John Everett Millais (1829-96), painter. Viscountess Goderich: Henriette Anne Theodosia Robinson (née Grantham), who became Viscountess Goderich (and later Countess de Grey and Ripon), was part of the prominent political and aristocratic circle in Victorian London that interacted with leading artists. Millais’ Portrait of Viscountess Goderich is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.