Elizabeth Gaskell

Two items in the hand of English writer Elizabeth Gaskell: an ink signature, “E. C. Gaskell,” on an off-white 2.25 x .5 slip mounted to an 8.25 x 4.25 backing sheet, which bears an affixed manuscript draft section from Chapter 29, ‘Wedding Raiment,’ of her 1863 novel Sylvia's Lovers, handwritten in ink by Gaskell on a light blue 8 x 2.5 sheet, which reads, in part: “There’s mebbe but one chance i’ a hundred,’ said Sylvia, pleading as it were for Kester, – ‘but – Oh! Philip, think ye there's just that one chance?” In overall fine condition.