Samuel Butler collection of letters, 1880-1896.

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Samuel Butler collection of letters, 1880-1896.

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Some letters addressed to H. T. Gillson, a college chum and confidant. Two letters of 1880 provide a self-estimate of Butler at the age of 44. With these: menu for a dinner in memory of Samuel Butler, 1908.

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Foot, Isaac, 1880-1960

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Biography The following information is drawn primarily from Sarah Foot's biography, My Grandfather Isaac Foot ; The Times and The New York Times obituaries (December 14, 1960), and Theodore G. Grieder's, The Isaac Foot Library: A Report to the University : Isaac Foot, influential British politician, staunch Methodist preacher, avid book collector, and author, was born February 23, 1880, and died December 12, 1960. The son of a bui...

Gillson, H. T.

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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...