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Autograph letter signed : Kilkenny, to Chapman and Hall, 1863 November 2.

BIB_ID
128762
Accession number
MA 8869
Creator
Banim, Michael, 1796-1874.
Display Date
1863 November 2.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.0 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Michael Banim's "The Town of the Cascades" was published in 1864.
With a publisher's notation on page 3 saying "Offered £20 more, out of first profits."
Housed with pages 37-38 from "Hermathena; a Dublin University Review" No. CXVII, Summer 1974 of a short essay titled "A Manuscript Letter from Michael Banim (1874)" by W.J. McCormack, Lecturer in English at the University of Leeds. The article does not refer to this letter but discusses Banim's employment as the Post Master of Kilkenny from 1862 until his death in 1874.
Summary
Concerning the sale of the copyright of his new book; agreeing to sell the copyright for £80, is ready to receive the proof sheets and will provide a title page, '...a preface and I expect a permitted dedication to a high personage."