Description
Single bifolium folded 4 times for postage, remains of wax seal. Some holes at corners of old folds, small tear to one edge, address panel a little soiled. Typewritten transcription of English-language portion of letter included.
[Autograph Letter from a Newlywed in St Petersburg to His Sister in Perthshire.]
- [St Petersburg]: 1834
£150
Notes
A rare survival of correspondence from a Scotsman resident in Russia in the first half of the nineteenth century. The writer is a Mr Baxter in St Petersburg, writing to his sister Helen Rennie in Perthshire, telling of her of his recent marriage to Elizabeth Koutkine, in which he sings her praises in moving from a palace into his cottage, bringing with her all her fine linens.
