BIB_ID
302402
Accession number
MA 4371.42
Creator
Mayer, S. R. Townshend (Samuel Ralph Townshend), 1841-1880.
Display Date
Saturday.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters from S. R. Townshend Mayer to George Bentley, publisher and editor of Temple Bar magazine. Letters have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Summary
Discussing some proofs and proposing to write an article on Hook, noting that "books are veritably my life, in two ways -- 1. they furnish me with the material for work, & therefore with bread & cheese; & 2 they enable me to get through days & nights of pain & depression ." With a postscript discussing other literary works.
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