BIB_ID
129388
Accession number
MA 8940
Creator
Bell, Clara, 1834-1927.
Display Date
189[4] January 13.
Credit line
Purchased. 1969.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.5 x 13.0 cm
Notes
Formerly accessioned as MA 4452; purchased with a collection of letters of George DuMaurier.
Mrs. Bell gives the year of writing as 1893 and it should be 1894. Trilby was first issued by Harper's in January 1894. A letter to Du Maurier, written by Mrs. Bell's husband Robert, is written from Pau on the same day, with an almost identical message of congratulations and dated January 13, 1894. (MA 8943)
Mrs. Bell gives the year of writing as 1893 and it should be 1894. Trilby was first issued by Harper's in January 1894. A letter to Du Maurier, written by Mrs. Bell's husband Robert, is written from Pau on the same day, with an almost identical message of congratulations and dated January 13, 1894. (MA 8943)
Provenance
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1969.
Summary
Congratulating him on "Trilby"; saying she had just read the first chapter in Harpers and "...I am as much delighted as I expected to be. I could not say more. The laird is to the life - both in text & illustrations...Trilby himself seems to me a most delightful & original creature - only I hate to have it in monthly doses. I left my husband at the reading room, with Harper in his turn. We hope Gerald has his foot well on the ladder, & that the New Year, having begun with good promise, will fulfil all your hearts' desires;" sending her love to him and to his wife.
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