Letter from Edward Robert Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton to Charles Kent, written from Knebworth House and dated 30 December 1882
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DZ/118/C2/142, ‘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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Letter from Edward Robert Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton to Charles Kent, written from Knebworth House and dated 30 December 1882
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A letter from Edward Robert Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton to Charles Kent, written from Knebworth House 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 describes the progress made on a biography up to Edward Butler’s marriage, adding that he 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 Kent to examine materials for the third volume of his biography.
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