BIB_ID
433560
Accession number
MA 14300.231
Creator
Halliday, Maria, -1889, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1856? June 25.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 13.1 x 10.2 cm
Notes
Signed "M.F."
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence; Jules Simon's La Religion naturelle was published in 1856.
Written from "London King St / St James"; dated "25th June".
Possibly a fragment, as the text is lacking in continuity between the final line on the bottom of page 4 and the text continuing accross the upper margins of pages 1-4.
Year of writing suggested by internal evidence; Jules Simon's La Religion naturelle was published in 1856.
Written from "London King St / St James"; dated "25th June".
Possibly a fragment, as the text is lacking in continuity between the final line on the bottom of page 4 and the text continuing accross the upper margins of pages 1-4.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Expressing her sympathy at learning of Madame Blaze de Bury's recent (medical) ordeal, and offering to send her issues of English newspapers; asking her opinion of Jules Simon's latest book, La Religion naturelle, and inquiring if she knows the author, adding "I asked my bookseller whether he had sold many copies, he sd 'It is beginning to sell but is it not rather free Madam?' The title frightens people you see"; noting that the Saturday review praised the book, and that "in consequence it will be read a little now, but there is a very poor reading public in Engd for such works"; noting that Madame de Bury will probably be leaving the city soon for the country and that she will be leaving town the middle of next month, and expressing how happy she will be to "leave this Babylon" and "escape from the whirl into my quiet sanctum, & read a few pages, & ponder over them, of the "vrai the beau" etc. or of J. Simon's immortalité ... it is like breathing mountain air after having been shut up in a confined space."
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