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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed with initials : Brighton, to William Macready, Friday [1841 July 24].

BIB_ID
301428
Accession number
MA 2097.21
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.
Display Date
Friday [1841 July 24].
Credit line
Purchased, 1961.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks.
Dating from postmarks.
Part of a collection of letters from Edward Bulwer Lytton to the actor William Macready. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased from Weber de Vore in 1961.
Summary
Regretting that he cannot meet Mrs. Adams in London. Mentioning that he is reading Aristophanes ("what a wonderful rascal he is!") and that Miss Sedgwick's book (probably Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home) ought to be used as waste paper.