BIB_ID
299600
Accession number
MA 7324.10
Creator
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.
Display Date
undated [1849 or later].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18 cm
Notes
Dating: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel The Caxtons was published in 1849.
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.
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
Criticizing an unidentified work that Parker sent him to review, noting "I am very sorry you sent me the MSS. for I hate pronouncing on a woman's work -- especially when perhaps poor thing, her bread depends on it." Referencing an upcoming piece on Bulwer-Lytton and praising his The Caxtons as "absolutely the best novel extant in the English language."
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