Samuel Butler letters, galley proof and fragments, 1887-1900.

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Samuel Butler letters, galley proof and fragments, 1887-1900.

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The collection contains two letters, one galley proof, and four fragments with corrections. In one letter to Mr. Squire, 1 Dec. 1899, Butler says he is sending a manuscript of Mrs. Boss's sayings. In the other letter to Dear Sirs (Metcalfe & Co. Ltd., Cambridge), 13 July 1900, Butler agrees to an estimate for printing. The galley proof is an early version of the text of Butler's Luck, or cunning, as the main means of organic modification? (published in 1887 by Trübner & Co.). The proof is paginated 69, contains 63 lines of text, contains numerous handwritten amendments by Butler, has been repaired, and is foxed and folded. In the book this text would run from page 312 line 19 to the end of page 317. Also included are four fragments bearing passages to be added to the text of the proof. One is typescript, the others handwritten, all amended by Butler in pencil and crayon.

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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...

Metcalfe & Co. (Cambridge, England)

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