[ Robert Chambers, Scottish publisher. ] Autograph Letter Signed ('R. Chambers') to an unnamed recipient, regarding a visit to 'the Gallery'.

1p., 12mo. Mourning border. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. He writes that his 'visit to the Gallery' has to be on the following Friday, but asks the recipient not to 'in the least inconvenience yourself on my account, though I certainly should consider it a great pleasure to see you on the occasion'. According to his entry in the Oxford DNB: 'In 1860 William Chambers returned to Edinburgh and the firm. Robert Chambers and his wife travelled to America before he and his family moved to London so that he could oversee the firm's new London offices. At the same time he carried out research in the British Museum and the Athenaeum Library as he prepared the Book of Days (1864).'