AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

Northampton, MA, 30 November 1888. Letter. Bleed through of mounting stains to verso. Good. A one-page letter in Cable's hand and SIGNED by him as "G. W. Cable" to Mrs. Henry M. Phillips. In full: "Thank you kindly for your invitation to meet Professor and Mrs. Fiske, but Mrs. Cable's health is delicate. She is virtually confined to the house and on Tuesday evening, December fourth, I must be in Columbus Ohio. With regrets I beg to remain." Mrs. Phillips might possibly be the widow of Henry Myer Phillips, Pennsylvania's first Jewish congressman.