BIB_ID
458714
Accession number
MA 14886.14
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.7 x 18.8 cm
Notes
One of a series of 14 letters from Edward Bulwer-Lytton to Robert Folkestone Williams (MA 14886).
Signed "EBL."
No address panel or envelope present.
Letter is undated. Terminal year of writing is inferred from initial signature "EBL." Bulwer-Lytton called himself Edward Lytton Bulwer until his mother's death in December 1843, after which he was known as Edward Bulwer Lytton. See MA 14886.1, 14886.2, and 14886.3 for pre-1843 instances of his earlier name.
Signed "EBL."
No address panel or envelope present.
Letter is undated. Terminal year of writing is inferred from initial signature "EBL." Bulwer-Lytton called himself Edward Lytton Bulwer until his mother's death in December 1843, after which he was known as Edward Bulwer Lytton. See MA 14886.1, 14886.2, and 14886.3 for pre-1843 instances of his earlier name.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Expressing thanks for a "kind letter & the / volumes which accompanied it"; stating he is "occupied" in a particular matter "of my own...mais le / bon jour viendra"; reporting he is "in very fair health, better on the whole" than he has been for a certain period; asking in post-script if Williams will "come & see me at my country place / in the summer - I should be there, God willing in July."
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