Description
Autograph letter signed (“David Gray”), to the playwright John Westland Marston, begging for his assistance (“ my funds being exhausted – and Tuesday the day to pay the landlady – I make bold to request some assistance from you..."), 3 pages, 8vo, 66 Upper Stanford Street, 24 June 1860
Footnote
Note: Letters by David Gray, who died of consumption aged 23, are rare. Born in Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire, he is best known for The Luggie, a poem of childhood reverie.