BIB_ID
458706
Accession number
MA 14886.9
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (5 pages) ; 18.4 x 11.2 cm + envelope
Notes
One of a series of 14 letters from Edward Bulwer-Lytton to Robert Folkestone Williams (MA 14886).
Signed "EBL."
Embossed stamp with flower in upper left corner of second item: "Super / Satin."
Envelope with two postmarks and seal addressed to "R.F. Williams Esq / 76 Coleshill St / Eaton Sq / London."
Date inferred from first postmark.
Place of writing inferred from first postmark (partial): "[P]oole." See Poole postmarks dated from same week in MA 14886.7 and 14886.8.
The work critiqued is a manuscript of Williams's novel The Luttrells: or, The Two Marriages (London: Henry Colburn, 1850); see note in MA 14886.7 for evidence of this and also MA 14886.8.
Signed "EBL."
Embossed stamp with flower in upper left corner of second item: "Super / Satin."
Envelope with two postmarks and seal addressed to "R.F. Williams Esq / 76 Coleshill St / Eaton Sq / London."
Date inferred from first postmark.
Place of writing inferred from first postmark (partial): "[P]oole." See Poole postmarks dated from same week in MA 14886.7 and 14886.8.
The work critiqued is a manuscript of Williams's novel The Luttrells: or, The Two Marriages (London: Henry Colburn, 1850); see note in MA 14886.7 for evidence of this and also MA 14886.8.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark on first item: escutcheon surmounted by a crown (partial).
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Suggesting strongly that Williams show his manuscript to a particular party suggested by Bulwer-Lytton; offering criticsm of Williams's manuscript; evaluating and commenting on some of his (Bulwer-Lytton's) own works, including his play The Lady of Lyons and his novel Lucretia; stating: "It is well to / remember that the great bulk / of novel readers are women / & that women don't reason - they feel."
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