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.
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."
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