BIB_ID
304719
Accession number
MA 2919.11
Creator
Busk, M. M., 19th cent.
Display Date
[ca. 1837].
Credit line
Purchased, 1977.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 18.8 cm
Notes
Mrs. William Busk's Plays and Poems were published in 1837.
Part of a collection of manuscripts, letters, and printed ephemera related to Jane Porter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of manuscripts, letters, and printed ephemera related to Jane Porter. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 14629); purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1977.
Summary
Asking her to circulate the enclosed prospectus among her friends, acknowledging that she does not expect Porter to subscribe as "I do not look upon our profession as affording guineas to throw away." Adding in self-justification that "no notion short of duty to an unfortunate husband ... could have induced me to take this mode of publishing, a mode of which I deeply feel the humiliation."
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