BIB_ID
105600
Accession number
MA 820.2
Creator
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Display Date
1912 Jan. 19.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Clarence McIlvaine, the recipient, was the London representative of Harper & Brothers.
Part of a collection of 6 autograph letters housed in an envelope in the back of the autograph manuscript signed of Hardy's The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. The manuscript and the letters are described in individual records (MA 820.1-7).
Written from Max Gate, Hardy's home in Dorchester.
Part of a collection of 6 autograph letters housed in an envelope in the back of the autograph manuscript signed of Hardy's The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. The manuscript and the letters are described in individual records (MA 820.1-7).
Written from Max Gate, Hardy's home in Dorchester.
Summary
Responding to McIlvaine's inquiry about manuscripts; noting that the manuscript of Tess of the d'Urbervilles went to the British Library; mentioning a "librarian friend" (Sydney Carlyle Cockerell) who dispersed Hardy's manuscripts to public libraries; saying that he would like to oblige Pierpont Morgan and wondering if Morgan would be interested in the manuscript of "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid" -- "the only prose of any length that is available now"; telling him that the story came out "about 1883"; adding that he could probably come up with a verse manuscript.
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