BIB_ID
393753
Accession number
MA 13161
Creator
Bailey, Philip James, 1816-1902.
Display Date
undated [185-?].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Boston publisher B.B. Mussey issued his 7th edition of Bailey's Festus in 1848.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Declining an offer to publish one of his writings and stating that it is "doomed never to see the light of day" as he is intent on burning it; notes that B.B. Mussey of Boston sent him a copy of his 7th edition of Festus about five years ago, and concludes "How it has progessed since I know not.".
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