BIB_ID
437284
Accession number
MA 14300.378
Creator
Steel, Robert, 1827-1893, sender.
Display Date
Manchester, England, 1858 September 16
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 13.2 x 10.4 cm
Notes
Written from "Manchester / 1 Broughton View, Pendleton."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Informing her that he had belatedly received her letter and accompanying article through the Dead Letter Office where it had been detained for want of sufficient prepayment, stating that he has only been able to give "only a hasty glance" to her article, but that it "seems to reveal a sad pictureand sound a solemn warning", adding "I trust an English reader may beware lest in admiration of French writers of fiction, they fall into French manners."
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