Record ID:
301206
Accession number:
MA 7348.12
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description:
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.1 cm
Notes:
With postmark, stamp, and seal; year is from postmark.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward Bulwer Lytton to Catherine Hutton. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 7348 for more information.
Summary:
Thanking her for her letter; saying he understands her passion for collecting, though he prefers to collect antiquities and old pictures rather than autographs; discussing his daughter; complaining that he is "besieged by railway speculators"; opining that the "age of sentiment is past, and the world rushes on to money making -- as if that were the Be all and End all of human happiness"; mentioning his need for "the water cure."
Provenance:
Gordon N. Ray.
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