BIB_ID
107691
Accession number
MA 9927.1
Creator
Croft, C., active 1894.
Display Date
Weston-Super-Mare, England, 1894 June 30.
Credit line
Purchased, 1969.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Formerly accessioned as MA 4452; purchased with a collection of letters to George du Maurier.
See also MA 9927.2, a subsequent letter written from Croft to Mrs. du Maurier on September 8, 1894.
Written from "Ryeford House / Boulevard / Weston Super Mare."
The signature is unclear. The last name is clearly Croft; the first initial appears to be a "C" although it is possible it may be an "L".
See also MA 9927.2, a subsequent letter written from Croft to Mrs. du Maurier on September 8, 1894.
Written from "Ryeford House / Boulevard / Weston Super Mare."
The signature is unclear. The last name is clearly Croft; the first initial appears to be a "C" although it is possible it may be an "L".
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1969.
Summary
Praising "Trilby" and the illustrations; saying "They have just sent the June Harper from Library and I have had a rich treat...Mr. du Maurier can beautify ugliness as witness in Peter Ibotsen [sic] the hideous fashions of the fifties. Trilby herself is the most loveable creation in fiction within my knowlege - because perfect in consistency the only other she reminds me of is Joan of Arc - & both are martyrs. Surely she is no real wife to Svengali only a hyptonized [sic] musical instrument and source of wealth. Any other relation would be too dreadful. A very fresh charming young fellow down here from Clapton for a holiday called on me with a letter of introduction from a mutual friend. [Illegible] I lent the four first Harpers and his gratitude on returning them was most pleasant. His first visit on his reaching home would he said be to Mudie's for the two other numbers. Now the lucky fellow has three and I must possess my soul in patience till the end of July. Summer has come at last. The hay crops for miles round are prodigious - & the air everywhere - fragrant with it. The heat and my heart beats over Trilby make my writing horrid."
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