BIB_ID
458701
Accession number
MA 14886.3
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.2 cm
Notes
One of a series of 14 letters from Edward Bulwer-Lytton to Robert Folkestone Williams (MA 14886).
Signed "EL Bulwer."
Address panel with postmark and seal: "R. Folkestone Williams Esq / 7 Wood St / Westminster."
Date of writing inferred from postmark.
Signed "EL Bulwer."
Address panel with postmark and seal: "R. Folkestone Williams Esq / 7 Wood St / Westminster."
Date of writing inferred from postmark.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: post-horn in an escutcheon (partial, lower half).
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Noting Williams's letter reached him in Paris; conveying he is "extremley obliged" for Williams's "kindness in receiving my work"; affirming he will "regard with much attention" "whatever / faults" Williams might find in his work "as the verdict of so able an / opinion"; confirming he received and was "very much delighted" by "a volume of very beautiful poems"; explaining he did not "acknowledge / them at the time" as he "intend[ed] to review them myself"; stating he has "recommended them to the notice" of someone at The New Monthly Magazine; speaking on the future of Williams's "poetical talents."
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