Identity area
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Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/1/3a/12
Unique identifier
GB 275 Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/1/3a/12
Title
Letter from Samuel Butler to his father, dated 26 May [1883]
Date(s)
- 26 May 1883 (Date of original letter; the transcript is undated.) (Creation)
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2 sheets paper
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Scope and content
Typed transcript. Refers to an account in his grandfather's journal of a sea storm in Lerici in 1822, which he assumes is the same as that in which the poet Shelley drowned, and asks for his sisters to copy out the passage to show to his friend, Mr Garnett.