Autograph letter signed by Mary Anne Everett Green (1818-1895) dated 1864

GREEN, Mary Anne Everett (1818-1895). Autograph letter signed to a friend.
 
7 Upper Gower Street, W.C., 31 March 1864.
 
Two pages on a single bifolium, 180 × 115 mm. Marks to inner edge where previously mounted, and a previous owner's comments in pen at the top of the first page, otherwise clean and legible. Very good.
 
A domestic letter from the historian and editor Mary Anne Everett Green, arranging a visit and explaining an unexpected musical engagement. Green asks her correspondent to arrive early on Saturday, as an evening rehearsal has arisen: “we have an unexpected engagement in the evening, and have to attend at Exeter Hall at 8 o’clock this evening, a last rehearsal of a new oratorio, which the National Choral Society, to which we belong, is to perform the Wednesday following.” She offers admission to the rehearsal if desired, but notes it would shorten their time together: “I shall expect you by 3 o’clock unless I hear to the contrary.”
 
Green was one of the most accomplished women historians of the nineteenth century, best known for editing the comprehensive 'Calendars of State Papers'. She worked for many years on a centralised national archive. Autograph material by Green is uncommon in commerce.