BIB_ID
431765
Accession number
MA 1617.429
Creator
Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904.
Display Date
London, England, 1879 June.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.0 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 "13 Hyde Park Gate South, / S.W." on mourning stationery engraved with the address.
The letter is undated however Stephen refers to the birth of his daughter "...on Friday last". Vanessa Stephen Bell was born May 30, 1879. May 30th was a Friday in 1879.
Written from "13 Hyde Park Gate South, / S.W." on mourning stationery engraved with the address.
The letter is undated however Stephen refers to the birth of his daughter "...on Friday last". Vanessa Stephen Bell was born May 30, 1879. May 30th was a Friday in 1879.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "I have been much occupied of late with a domestic crisis wh. is happily going on well - a daughter having been born to me on Friday last. I should otherwise have written a line to say that I was very glad to see your articles in the Pall Mall. I think that, if anything, they were rather too full of facts - I wonder where you got them! But they seemed to me good as well as opportune. I will only say what I think I have said before. Now that you have got your foot in at the door, it is comparatively easy to introduce your head & shoulders - only shove hard & steadily. Remember the parable of the unfortunate woman & the unjust judge - it is a remarkable bit of common sense in a work wh. occasionally verges upon the sentimental. I don't say that Greenwood is an urgent judge; but he is an editor wh. is much the same thing & editors are all more or less squeezable. I should like to know if you can tell me when I am likely to see your article."
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