Autograph Note signed ("T. Hardy") to "Dear Mr. Fisher.

1895. One page of a bifolium (watermarked "Papyrus Regia"), dated "18.12.95".

The text of this note reads: I can only find the enclosed papers [not present], wh. please return, as they do not belong to me. Some details are incorrect. | Photography of Elliott & Fry, Baker St. | Yours truly | [signed] T. Hardy. "Mr Fisher" was almost certainly Frederick Henry Fisher, editor of "Literary World" magazine on Fleet Street; the prior month (3.11.95) Hardy had written a note to him ("F.H. Fisher Esq.") regarding the dearth of advance copies of JUDE THE OBSCURE. (The current note must have been in response to Fisher's request for more information, (truncated) probably in preparation for an article about JUDE.) Hardy must have enclosed a copy of the portrait of himself that had been taken in 1894 by F.H. Hart for Elliott & Fry -- who at the time were the London photographers of Anybody Who Was Somebody. The letter is in fine condition, other than faint evidence of prior mounting along a back edge. (Inventory #: 15538)