BIB_ID
431737
Accession number
MA 1617.414
Creator
Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904.
Display Date
London, England, 1876 November 5
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Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 11.5 x 9.2 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 from 11 Hyde Park Gate South on stationery engraved "8, Southwell Gardens / South Kensington."
Written from 11 Hyde Park Gate South on stationery engraved "8, Southwell Gardens / South Kensington."
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "I told my bookseller, Mr. Bain, in the Haymarket, to get your books. He said when I saw him last that there was some difficulty in getting the volumes you wanted without the complete set. He thought, however, that he could get them from Paris & promised to see about it at once. I will speak to him again in a day or two. Tomorrow I fear that I can't get that way. I am not surprised that you should feel a little daunted by Columbus, who would want a large canvass to receive full justice. But the only rule in such matters is Spenser's 'be bold, be bold, be bold;' The addition 'be not too bold' must be regarded as a spurious insertion into the text."
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