BIB_ID
396738
Accession number
MA 8712
Creator
Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
Display Date
[1862 November 25?].
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Purchased for the Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2016.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.5 cm
Notes
The date of the letter is from the published letter cited below.
The letter is signed as "M.E. Lewes".
The letter is written on stationery engraved with "16 Blandford Square / N.W." and dated "Tuesday Evening".
The letter is signed as "M.E. Lewes".
The letter is written on stationery engraved with "16 Blandford Square / N.W." and dated "Tuesday Evening".
Summary
Expressing her delight with his illustrations and discussing specifically "...the scene with Baldassarre and Tessa;" saying "Tessa and her Babkin are perfect - Baldassarre's is, as you say, an impossible face to draw, but you have seized the framework of the face well, both in this illustration and the previous one;" telling him that "...a man of some eminence in art was speaking of your drawings to a third person the other day as "remarkable" in a tone of genuine admiration. I don't know whether you care about that, but it is good to know that there is any genuine admiration in one's neighbours;" telling him "The February number will soon be out of my hands, but you will have it when it pleases the pigs - or printers."
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