Autograph letter signed : Salcombe, to Joan Severn, [1889] July 12.

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Autograph letter signed : Salcombe, to Joan Severn, [1889] July 12.

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Saying that he felt that the most recent number of Praeterita that she sent him was "the most beautiful of the series which has yet appeared--calm mellow charming, without a trace of excitement, with all sorts of lovely thoughts flitting about like the blue moths on a summer evening;" referring to the criticism Charles Eliot Norton has leveled against him with regard to the Carlyle [Jane Welsh Carlyle] letters, saying "I hardly understand what you tell me of C. Norton. If he thinks he has done wrong he ought to be sorry and to say so. If right he should explain and defend himself."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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