Thanks for settling of Voltaire quotation; progress of biography up until Edward Bulwer Lytton’s marriage, now only missing story of the arrest of the thief/murderer. Questions about the publishers of Edward Bulwer Lytton’s early novels; plans for Kent to visit and examine materials for volume 3 of biography
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DZ/118/C2/142
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Thanks for settling of Voltaire quotation; progress of biography up until Edward Bulwer Lytton’s marriage, now only missing story of the arrest of the thief/murderer. Questions about the publishers of Edward Bulwer Lytton’s early novels; plans for Kent to visit and examine materials for volume 3 of biography
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A letter from Edward Robert Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton to Charles Kent, written from Knebworth and dated 30 December 1882.
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Edward Robert Lytton thanks Charles Kent for settling the debate over the Voltaire quotation mentioned in DZ/118/C2/141. He discusses progress made on a biography until Edward Butler’s marriage and is now only missing the story of the arrest of the thief/murderer. He poses several questions about the publishers of Edward Bulwer Lytton’s early novels, and ends my stating his plans to visit Ken to examine materials for the third volume of his biography.
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