BIB_ID
458709
Accession number
MA 14886.4
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 19.3 x 12 cm + envelope
Notes
One of a series of 14 letters from Edward Bulwer-Lytton to Robert Folkestone Williams (MA 14886).
Signed "Lytton Bulwer."
Written from "8 Charles St."
Envelope with manuscript "July 10" on recto and dark, golden-specked seal addressed to "The Author of / Shakespeare & his friends / care of H. Colburn Esq / 13 Marlbro' St."
Williams's novel Shakspeare and His Friends; or, 'The Golden Age' of Merry England (London: Henry Colburn) was published in three volumes in 1838.
Year of writing inferred from 1838 publication of Shakspeare and His Friends.
Signed "Lytton Bulwer."
Written from "8 Charles St."
Envelope with manuscript "July 10" on recto and dark, golden-specked seal addressed to "The Author of / Shakespeare & his friends / care of H. Colburn Esq / 13 Marlbro' St."
Williams's novel Shakspeare and His Friends; or, 'The Golden Age' of Merry England (London: Henry Colburn) was published in three volumes in 1838.
Year of writing inferred from 1838 publication of Shakspeare and His Friends.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Explaining he has deferred this letter until he found "leisure to read your / delightful work"; conveying on "the graceful pleasure I / experienced in the flattering / tone of your letter"; stating "Your volumes are full of / beauty"; remarking "I myself have a prejudice / against the antiquated style / as used in the present day"; praising a scene with the character of "the miser" as having a "power / that has few equals in / modern literature" and that another scene with the miser and Joanna "is no less / remarkable"; expressing hope for "the pleasure of / your personal acquaintance"
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