Thorsteinsson, Steingrimur, Icelandic poet, translator and educator (1831-1913). Eigh. Letter from the U.S. "St.Thorsteinsson". In German. 11/4 p.m. 8vo. Reykjavik 23.XI.1882. To a friend. "... With a steamer departing for Leith, I am sending you this short writing by not yet your valuable letter v. 2 v. M. can answer completely ... This time I am sending you a different and better (even 10 years older, and taken in Copenhagen) photography-potrait, a registration of my poems in a Swedish newspaper, and some rehearsals ...". Announces another broadcast by a bookseller and notes as a postscript: "The winter has been very mild to this day, and although the prospects in many places are very worrying, it is to be hoped that Iceland, especially through the plentiful, human-friendly help, will be helped by this crisis - one of the heaviest in recent centuries! The rumor that the accounts of the Noth on the north and west of the country are exaggerated is false and presumptuous by ill-willed persons (e.g. Gudbr. Vigfusson)." - Rare.