BIB_ID
431748
Accession number
MA 1617.418
Creator
Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904.
Display Date
London, England, 1877 June 15.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.9 x 11.4 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, / S.W." on stationery engraved with the address.
Written from "11 Hyde Park Gate South, / S.W." on stationery engraved with the address.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "I am sorry that your verses have come back. I feel a little difficulty about speaking to Knowles - I don't mean that I object to speaking; but that I greatly doubt whether my speaking would be serviceable. I have had some dealings with him of wh. it is needless to speak, wh. lead me to doubt whether he would look favourably upon any one coming through me. If you send me the verses I will send them on & do what I can; but if you have any other channel, I should recommend it. I am glad that you have been at work, though it amazes me how any constitution can survive the perusal [illegible] a hundred some of the works of 20 lady novelists - Thank you for your congratulations to Miss Thackeray. I have no doubts of her happiness as far as happiness can be secured by the affection of the good qualities of the persons chiefly concerned."
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