Autograph letter signed H.N. Hudson, Cambridge, to A.H. Dooley, Terre Haute, Indiana [manuscript], 1878 February 12.

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Autograph letter signed H.N. Hudson, Cambridge, to A.H. Dooley, Terre Haute, Indiana [manuscript], 1878 February 12.

Discusses the merits of various English writers including Edmund Burke, George Eliot, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Lord Lytton, and Henry Fielding. Admits that he is not a great reader of novels and finds more pleasure in reading Scott's Antiquary the twentieth time than any of Dicken's the first. Mentions the growing success of the Classical English reader.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7525268

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Dooley, A. H., fl. 1877-1882

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Hudson, Henry Norman, 1814-1886

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