Prolific British novelist (1856–1925) best known for such adventure fare as King Solomon’s Mines and Allan Quatermain. AQS on a 4.5 x 7 sheet of Ditchingham House, Norfolk letterhead, 1892. In full: “‘Behold now, let the dead & living meet! Across the gulf of time they still are one. Time has no power against Identity.’ ‘She’, Chap XX, H. Rider Haggard.” Mailing folds (one just touching top of a few letters) and a few very faint marginal smudges, otherwise fine, bright condition. R&R COA.