Autograph letter signed from Charles Merivale to Edward Fitzgerald [manuscript], 1880 February 10.

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Autograph letter signed from Charles Merivale to Edward Fitzgerald [manuscript], 1880 February 10.

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He has been reading a life of Dickens which "reads like the play of Hamlet with the part of Ophelia left out."

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