Autograph letter, signed, from Samuel Butler to Mrs. Fuller Maitland, March 7, 1893.

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Autograph letter, signed, from Samuel Butler to Mrs. Fuller Maitland, March 7, 1893.

This item, dated March 7, 1893, is an autograph letter, signed, to Mrs. Fuller Maitland accepting an invitation. The letter is headed: 15, Cliffords Inn, London. E.C.

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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...