BIB_ID
431770
Accession number
MA 1617.430
Creator
Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904.
Display Date
London, England, 1879 June 4.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.2 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 "13 Hyde Park Gate South, / S.W." on mourning stationery engraved with the address.
Written from "13 Hyde Park Gate South, / S.W." on mourning stationery engraved with the address.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "Of course the Comedie Francaise ought to appear whilst the subject is warm & I should wish to have the article soon (in a week or so) if it is to appear next month. I am afraid that three articles would be altogether an overdose & I will confess that I should decidedly prefer one to two. You can hardly be [illegible], but I should think that a lively article of moderate length might give the gist of the thing. If that suits another a little time hence might [illegible] of another aspect of the subject."
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