Autograph Letter, signed ME Lewes to Joseph Munt Langford

by George Eliot

$5,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

2-1/2 pp on a bifolium, 6 x 7 3/4 inches. 12mo. Old folds, soiling around outside edge. The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877, p. 435. Item #352206 Joseph Munt Langford 1809-1884 was a publisher, playwright and drama critic who managed the London offices for Blackwood & Sons. Lewes, upon receipt of a letter from John Blackwood expressing romantic interest in Emma Gwyther daughter of Reverend John Gwyther, model for Amos Barton in Scenes of

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