Identity area
Reference code
Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/38/10
Unique identifier
GB 275 Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/38/10
Title
Letter from Samuel Butler to Mr Selwyn, dated 3 May 1893
Date(s)
- 3 May 1893–7 Mar. 1921 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
3 sheets paper
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Typed transcript of an autograph letter from Samuel Butler to Mr Selwyn, addressed from 15 Clifford's Inn, London E.C. The original letter accompanied a copy of Butler's pamphlet 'On the Trapanese Origin of the Odyssey', which Butler had inscribed to 'E.J. Selwyn from the author'. The transcriber of the letter, Byron Barnes Horton, owned this volume and Butler's original letter with it; Horton's letter to Henry Festing Jones with which he sent the transcript is included here, dated 25 January 1921; a second letter from Horton to Jones, dated 7 March 1921, is also included.