BIB_ID
193516
Accession number
MA 4069
Creator
Lawrence, George Alfred, 1827-1876.
Display Date
[n.d., one with watermark 1859].
Credit line
Purchase; Mr. John B. Davidson; 1984.
Description
2 items (7 p.) ; 18 cm.
Summary
About sales of the third edition of Guy Livingstone, solicitations from magazines for stories ("the Cornhill magazine wants me to write anything [the word "anything" underlined], but I don't think I shall do anything ['til?] I begin another story which perhaps I may do ere long"), and maximizing his profit from an unnamed work: "The book is finished [the word "finished" underlined]: but I should have preferred more time, to amplify [the word "amplify" underlined] the concluding chapter; as the matter seems to have been somewhat short..."
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