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Letter from Samuel Lucas, London, to Madame Blaze de Bury, 1860 March 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
436939
Accession number
MA 14300.305
Creator
Lucas, Samuel, 1811-1865, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1860 March 5
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 13.5 x 10.8 cm
Notes
Written on blue stationery from: 11 Bouverie St.
Samuel Lucas was employed as editor for the periodical Once a Week in 1859; Blaze de Bury's article "The Salons of Paris" appeared in that magazine on June 16, 1860, pages 595-598.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Praising an article which recently appeared in the "Correspondent" and sending her "Biography & Criticism"; mentioning her article on the The Salons of Paris (appearing in Once a Week), writing that he is "pressed for space as I have two serials running at once", but that he looking forward to the reversal of the paper duties and the prospect of expanding Once a Week, which should make the magazine "more attractive as well as diminish my difficulties as to space."; mentioning here novel Mildred Vernon.