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Butler/Section 2 (II)/1/1/4
Unique identifier
GB 275 Butler/Section 2 (II)/1/1/4
Title
Letter fragment from Samuel Butler to [F.C.] Wace
Date(s)
- 1861 (Circa) (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 sheet paper
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Four-page fragment (pp.9-12 of 12) of an ALS containing part of the article 'Our Emigrant', subsequently published in The Eagle, Vol. II [1861], pp.101-13. The text contained within the letter fragment corresponds to the text of p.109, line 30, to the end of the article. The letter was presented to the collection by Sir John Sandys in 1914, who discovered it in a drawer; see the account published in The Eagle, Vol. XXXV [1914], p.115.