Letter-March 17, 1818
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Letter-March 17, 1818
Subject
Thanks for receipt of book.
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Manuscript Letter
Creator
Maria Edgeworth
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Date
March 17, 1817
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Courtesy of Chawton House Library
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English
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Edgeworth's Town
March 17, 1818
Sir,
Family misfortunes, and an absence of many months from my home must plead my apology for not having sooner acknowledged the receiving your obliging letter and the work which M. le Comte de Stendhal did me the honor to send me.
I request you will do me the favor to present to M le Comte my thanks for the amusement which his lively book has afforded me & many of my friends -- and at a time when for my own part I found it scarcely possible to attend to anything.
If I were not an utter stranger to the Comte I should write to address my thanks to him, but I trust you Sir will have the goodness to convey them to him -- I sh'd also wish that if you have any means of conveying the message, you would let the Marquis de [Neri?] know that it highly gratified me to see, as I did in this Work, in his excellent observations on teh writing of Alfieri, that the name of Lord Glenthorn is known to him and that he is acquainted with Ennui -- which I never should have imagined.
I am
Sir
Your obed't humble Serva't
Maria Edgeworth
Be so good to let me know if you have means of conveying any books to the Comte de Stendhal-- any not you leave for me at Mr Hunters St. Paul's Ch. Yard will be forwarded to me --
March 17, 1818
Sir,
Family misfortunes, and an absence of many months from my home must plead my apology for not having sooner acknowledged the receiving your obliging letter and the work which M. le Comte de Stendhal did me the honor to send me.
I request you will do me the favor to present to M le Comte my thanks for the amusement which his lively book has afforded me & many of my friends -- and at a time when for my own part I found it scarcely possible to attend to anything.
If I were not an utter stranger to the Comte I should write to address my thanks to him, but I trust you Sir will have the goodness to convey them to him -- I sh'd also wish that if you have any means of conveying the message, you would let the Marquis de [Neri?] know that it highly gratified me to see, as I did in this Work, in his excellent observations on teh writing of Alfieri, that the name of Lord Glenthorn is known to him and that he is acquainted with Ennui -- which I never should have imagined.
I am
Sir
Your obed't humble Serva't
Maria Edgeworth
Be so good to let me know if you have means of conveying any books to the Comte de Stendhal-- any not you leave for me at Mr Hunters St. Paul's Ch. Yard will be forwarded to me --
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Maria Edgeworth, “Letter-March 17, 1818,” Maria Edgeworth, accessed March 29, 2024, https://editingedgeworth.omeka.net/items/show/25.