Autograph letter signed by writer Jane Strickland to Pierce Egan dated c1840

STRICKLAND, Jane Margaret (1800-1888). Autograph Letter Signed to Journalist Pierce Egan (1772-1849) concerning the review of a religious work in aid of the Hospital for Consumption. No date c1840)
 
Single sheet folded, written on two sides, bearing the autograph endorsement “Pierce Egan Esq” to final side. 140 x 90 mm. Old folds, a couple of small rust holes where previously pinned, light marking and creasing, but generally very good.
 
A publishing letter from the Victorian author Jane Margaret Strickland (1800-1888), one of the notable Strickland literary family, sisters of Agnes Strickland and Susanna Moodie. In the letter Strickland asks Egan to assist by inserting a favourable review in “The Home Circle” of Mrs. Isabel Montgomery’s Christian Life, noting that its “extensive circulation” would aid “a noble charity”, namely the Hospital for Consumption.  No other Jane Strickland letters traced in commerce at time of cataloguing and an interesting association to the recipient Pierce Egan.