BIB_ID
299590
Accession number
MA 7324.5
Creator
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.
Display Date
Wednesday [1852 Oct. 13].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 15.7 cm
Notes
Dating: Larry K. Uffelman dates this letter to 13 October 1852.--Cf. Larry K. Uffelman, "Kingsley's Hypatia: Revisions in Context," Nineteenth-Century Literature 41, no. 1 (Jun., 1986), pp. 87-96.
Hypatia first appeared serialized in Fraser's Magazine beginning in 1852; it was published in book form in 1853.
Part of a collection of 13 letters from Charles Kingsley to his publisher J. W. Parker. Letters have been described individually in 13 catalog records (MA 7324.1-13); see collection-level record for more information.
Hypatia first appeared serialized in Fraser's Magazine beginning in 1852; it was published in book form in 1853.
Part of a collection of 13 letters from Charles Kingsley to his publisher J. W. Parker. Letters have been described individually in 13 catalog records (MA 7324.1-13); see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Sending an installment of Hypatia, noting that he is "not quite pleased with it." Discussing his previous intention to include a long chapter on Rafael and Victoria, but mentioning "I might skip that, & all the theological disquisition [which] it involves, till the books comes out as a whole." Hoping that this will "make this part of the book more amusing for a magazine," and stating that he should be "glad of more time ... to work out his conversation." With a postscript asking for his advance.
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