Autograph letter, signed, from Samuel Butler to Mrs. Fuller Maitland, March 7, 1893, March 7, 1893

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Autograph letter, signed, from Samuel Butler to Mrs. Fuller Maitland, March 7, 1893, March 7, 1893

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Maitland, Fuller Mrs.

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Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

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Samuel Butler was an English novelist, essayist, and critic. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and after a time in New Zealand as a sheep farmer, returned to England in 1864 where he established himself as both a painter and a writer. His satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the Victorian illusion of progress. His autobiographical novel, The way of all flesh (1903), is generally considered his masterpiece and is a story about Butler's escape from the suffocating mor...