Autograph letter signed from Alexander Dyce, Rosebank, Aberdeen, to John Payne Collier, 25 Euston Square, New Road, London, 1833 September 18-21

Item — Box: Y.d.341(57-112)

Identifier: Y.d.341 (57)

Scope and Contents note

Explains he is suffering from an eye complaint, amaurosis, which impedes his reading and writing, and expresses fears that it will worsen. Two days later, he writes that he has had another attack, and reviews his activities over the last three months, "the most miserable of my life." Expresses his opinion of living poets.