BIB_ID
458715
Accession number
MA 14886.13
Creator
Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873, sender.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm
Notes
One of a series of 14 letters from Edward Bulwer-Lytton to Robert Folkestone Williams (MA 14886).
Signed "EBL."
Written "Saturday Eveng." from "Knebworth / Stevenage / Herts".
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.
"Warren" may be Samuel Warren (1807-1877), a novelist, MP, and contributor to Blackwood's. They knew each other at least as correspondents, per C.R.B. Dunlop's Samuel Warren: A Victorian Law and Literature Practitioner (2000), p. 268.
Signed "EBL."
Written "Saturday Eveng." from "Knebworth / Stevenage / Herts".
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.
"Warren" may be Samuel Warren (1807-1877), a novelist, MP, and contributor to Blackwood's. They knew each other at least as correspondents, per C.R.B. Dunlop's Samuel Warren: A Victorian Law and Literature Practitioner (2000), p. 268.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: post-horn in an escutcheon surmounting "P" (partial).
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Asking Williams to visit him at Knebworth; giving travel instructions to come by 4:00 o'clock Great Northern train from Kings Crossing station to Welwyn, "thence I am 4 / miles"; reiterating request to visit and informing "I have asked / Warren."
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