BIB_ID
458703
Accession number
MA 14886.5
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (7 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 "EB Lytton."
Written from "Hertford St."
Envelope with postmark and seal addressed to "The Author of / Maids of Honour / at Mr. Colburn's / Publisher / 13 Gt. Marlbro St."
Date of writing inferred from postmark.
Williams's Maids of Honour: A Tale of the Court of George I (Henry Colburn, 1845) was written pseudonymously as Frank Ranelagh and published in three volumes. The book's dedication (pp. iii-vi) (dated 1845 March 24) is to Bulwer Lytton.
Signed "EB Lytton."
Written from "Hertford St."
Envelope with postmark and seal addressed to "The Author of / Maids of Honour / at Mr. Colburn's / Publisher / 13 Gt. Marlbro St."
Date of writing inferred from postmark.
Williams's Maids of Honour: A Tale of the Court of George I (Henry Colburn, 1845) was written pseudonymously as Frank Ranelagh and published in three volumes. The book's dedication (pp. iii-vi) (dated 1845 March 24) is to Bulwer Lytton.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermarks: "Joynsons / 1845."
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Explaining "after / an absence of some weeks" he "find[s] the volumes" that Williams has done him "the / high honour to dedicate / to me"; offering commnetary on Williams's novel Maids of Honour; praising the protagonist Mary Lepel and her virtues as a character; identifying the character of the brigadier general as "excellent."
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