Mitchell, S.W. Letter to unknown female recipient

MITCHELL, [Silas] Weir. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Bar Harbor, ME, Sept. 26, [year not stated]. Three-page letter on two integral leaves, with each leaf measuring 6.75 x 4.5”. Near fine. Mitchell writes to an unnamed female recipient in response to her letter. The letter reads as follows: “Dear Madam, You would be very welcome to verse of mine if I had ever written anything in the interest of children except unpleasant prescriptions. I am unfortunately not in any such relation to M.M. Charcot & Pasteur as would enable me to take with either the liberty of making the request you desire me to make. Yrs truly, Weir Mitchell.”

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MSS 2/241-04 Series 1 Box 1 Folder 22