Autograph letter signed : Paris, to John Murray, 1847 Mar. 18.

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Autograph letter signed : Paris, to John Murray, 1847 Mar. 18.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270904746

Mentioning books by [Jules] Michelet, [Alphonse de] Lamartine, [Herman] Melville, [Charles] Darwin; thanking him for sending her a copy of Charles Dickens' The Battle of Life; describing "that last tale of Dickens" [The Battle of Life?] as a "sad failure" and speculating that "he never wrote a word of it ... it is so much inferior to his ... Dombey and Son"; saying that Dickens came to visit her in Paris and she found him "the very man [she] expected, full of life and animation, but slightly spoilt by adulation"; noting that she thinks he is "too thoroughly English to be easily understood, appreciated, and liked by foreigners."

1 item (3 p., with address) ; 21.9 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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