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Letter from Thomas Hardy, Max Gate, Dorchester, to Sarah Bernhardt, 1901 June 25 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
232744
Accession number
MA 5077
Creator
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Display Date
Dorcherster, England, 1901 June 25.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (2 pages); 17.8 x 11.2 cm.
Notes
Written from "Max Gate, / Dorchester" on stationery engraved with the address.
Bernhardt did not agree to produce Tess.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Summary
Recalling their meeting [two weeks before] at Maurice Hewlitt's, and sending her a copy of his novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles (in French) and inviting her to produce it on the French stage, "because I feel that the chief character could be so finely rendered by yourself."