BIB_ID
441172
Accession number
MA 3893
Creator
St. John, Percy B. (Percy Bolingbroke), 1821-1889.
Credit line
Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund, 1983.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.9 x 17.2 cm
Notes
Dated "Sunday."
Addressed to: "John Mortimer Esq. / Adelaide St / Trafalgar Square."
Addressed to: "John Mortimer Esq. / Adelaide St / Trafalgar Square."
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's, 28 March 1983, lot 15.
Summary
Proposing a series of translations, "A Foreign Library of Fiction," echoing Chapman & Hall's "foreign library of serious books"; listing specific authors and titles that would appear in the series, among them Eugène Sue and Honoré de Balzac; saying that he would initiate the series with Sue's "Female Bluebeard" and describing the plot in detail; asking Mortimer to think the matter over and offering to "raise the public curiosity by a series of gratis paragraphs in every quarter where I have influence."
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