Letter to "Dear May" [manuscript], 1877 September 28.

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Letter to "Dear May" [manuscript], 1877 September 28.

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Butler, Clifford's Inn, London, writes to his sister, Mary Butler, regarding his hard work and sending a quotation from Pedro Carolino's "The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English" for her amusement.

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Carolino, Pedro

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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...

Butler, Mary, 1841-1916,

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