BIB_ID
404766
Accession number
MA 3695.2
Creator
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922.
Display Date
1906 December 4.
Credit line
Gift of Frederick A. Melhado 1980.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 20.3 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Written on stationery printed "Newbuildings Place / Horsham / Sussex" and "Telegrams & Station, / Southwater, / 2 Miles."
Maria Theresa Villiers Earle was the eldest daughter of Edward Ernest Villiers (1806-1843) & Elizabeth Charlotte Liddell Villiers (1807-1890) and sister of Edith Villiers Bulwer-Lytton, wife of Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton.
The book referred to is "Personal and Literary Letters of Robert, First Earl of Lytton" edited by Elizabeth Edith "Betty" Bulwer-Lytton Balfour and published in 1906.
This letter was acquired with another letter from Blunt to Mrs. Earle dated December 18, 1899 (MA 3695.1)
Maria Theresa Villiers Earle was the eldest daughter of Edward Ernest Villiers (1806-1843) & Elizabeth Charlotte Liddell Villiers (1807-1890) and sister of Edith Villiers Bulwer-Lytton, wife of Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton.
The book referred to is "Personal and Literary Letters of Robert, First Earl of Lytton" edited by Elizabeth Edith "Betty" Bulwer-Lytton Balfour and published in 1906.
This letter was acquired with another letter from Blunt to Mrs. Earle dated December 18, 1899 (MA 3695.1)
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Frederick A. Melhado, 1980.
Summary
Expressing his delight "...in Betty's book about her father. It is all that a biography by a daughter sh'd be & shows a very delightful side of him. Nor do I think that his life w'd gain much in interest were the side we specially knew of it added. In that way his life was rather incomplete, for he never quite realized his ideals in love, and unless you do that it is practically failure - At least such is my impression about him. I am enjoying a new lease of life & comparative youth. That is to say I can do again most of the things I used to do - even most of the physical things - I go out driving & shoot pheasants, & next summer if all goes well I mean to ride. As to writing, I have accomplished more in the last year than in any five years of my life. I am sorry you had the worry about Lionel, but fortunately these things pan over very quickly & I am sure one has always reason to congratulate oneself on the marriages one did not make. I shall be in London after the middle of January if you sh'd happen to be also there & w'd let me know."
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