Autograph letter signed "M.E. Lewes" : London, to Alexander Main, [18]77 Dec. 4.

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Autograph letter signed "M.E. Lewes" : London, to Alexander Main, [18]77 Dec. 4.

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Criticizing a recently published book of quotations from Tennyson's poems and declaring that "the presentation of our beloved Tennyson in this book is cruelly inadequate"; discussing what quotations from her works Main will use in his "Birthday Book"; suggesting that "it would have been better not to have made the volume of 'Sayings' quite so bulky."

1 item (4 p.) ; 15.9 cm. + envelope.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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