H. Rider Haggard, novelist : presentation autograph signature, dated 1888.

Manuscript in ink on card, 110 x 90 mm; verso with some paper adhesions from where the piece was once mounted in an album.

H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), English writer of adventure fiction, was the author of King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and She (1887), among many other popular works.

Provenance: Autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) (1854–1924), “The Briars,” Mornington, Victoria (Australia); à Beckett family, Melbourne (by descent).