An Original Handwritten and Signed Letter by The Secret Garden Writer Frances Hodgson Burnett. Undated but C1890’s. A letter to a friend that she is unable to meet up this weekend as she is out of town. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett 1849 – 1924 was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885–1886), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Size is 142mm x 110mm. Condition is good. Light folding crease.