BIB_ID
431736
Accession number
MA 1617.413
Creator
Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904.
Display Date
London, England, 1876 October 21.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.6 cm
Notes
This letter is one of twenty-four letters from Leslie Stephen to W. E. Henley written between 1876 and 1881 (MA 1617.411-MA 1617.434).
Written on the stationery of The Cornhill Magazine.
Written on the stationery of The Cornhill Magazine.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Offering criticism on two poems Henley sent him; offering suggestions on word and meter changes and asking him to return the sonnet with his "...emendations, if any. A sonnet can't be too elaborately polished."
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