BIB_ID
196121
Accession number
MA 13967
Creator
Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897.
Display Date
[1883]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.1 x 11 cm
Notes
Written on black-edged mourning stationery.
Daudet's novel L'Evangeliste appeared in 1883.
Daudet's novel L'Evangeliste appeared in 1883.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Suggesting that the recipient write a column in response to General [William] Booth of the Salvation Army, who wrote a letter to the London Times protesting the recipient's article and Daudet's novel L'Evangeliste; regretting that he cannot print names and close the mouths of those, such as [Armand de] Pontmartin [French critic and man of letters], who have accused Daudet's novel of being a hoax; with an insulting note addressed to General Booth appended at end.
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