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Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/1/1/19
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GB 275 Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/1/1/19
Title
'To the Editor of the Athenaeum'
Date(s)
- 26 Feb. 1900 (Date of original letter; the transcription is undated.) (Creation)
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2 sheets paper
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MS transcription, by Henry Festing Jones, of a letter from Samuel Butler to Athenaeum, dated 26 February 1900, responding to an article by Sidney Lee on the definition of 'begetter' in Elizabethan English. At the end of the transcription HFJ notes: 'I do not know whether this letter appeared in the Athenaeum I have copied this from the pressed copy draft wh. is among S.B's letters'.