BIB_ID
295864
Accession number
MA 820.3
Creator
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.
Display Date
1912 Jan. 25.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Clarence McIlvaine, the recipient, was the London representative of Harper & Brothers.
Part of a collection of 6 autograph letters housed in an envelope in the back of the autograph manuscript signed of Hardy's The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. The manuscript and the letters are described in individual records (MA 820.1-7).
Written from Max Gate, Hardy's home in Dorchester.
Part of a collection of 6 autograph letters housed in an envelope in the back of the autograph manuscript signed of Hardy's The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid. The manuscript and the letters are described in individual records (MA 820.1-7).
Written from Max Gate, Hardy's home in Dorchester.
Summary
Telling him that the manuscript of The Dynasts is at the British Museum with Tess; reiterating that he can find some verse for [Pierpont] Morgan in addition to the prose story [The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid]; noting that he is "quite at a loss about terms"; suggesting that Morgan name his price; offering to write Morgan's name on the manuscripts; discussing republishing "The Milkmaid."
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