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Creator
Date
1852 June 17
Location
Eversley (Hampshire),
England
Great Britain
Great Britain
Media format
Manuscript text
Extent
1 item
Language
English
Genre
Communications
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 542
Folger call number: Y.c.3572
Folger holdings ID: 256330
Accession Number: cs717
Folger call number: Y.c.3572
Folger holdings ID: 256330
Accession Number: cs717
Summary
Asks for advice on a comedy he is planning to write. Complains of the ghastly conventionalisement of modern comedies such as Browning's Colombe's Birthday. Elizabethan comedies were better because they showed man as a social being in fixed social relations rather than as individuals or simply members of a family (though he would like to see a family comedy written about the Brother's Widow Marriage Bill.) Elaborates on the plot he has envisioned involving various community members in 'The Parish.' Asks him to thank Mr. Chadwick for the donation of blue books. The birth of another daughter has left him idle as a butterfly
Notes
General notes
Notes in French at top of first page. In pencil at bottom of 4th and 8th leaves: Kingsley, Charles, 3370 I and Kingsley, Charles, 3370 II
Also known as
Extended title: Autograph letter signed from Charles Kingsley, Eversley, Hampshire, to Sir Henry Taylor 1852 June 17
Subjects
Related names
correspondent: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
subject: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
subject: Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886
correspondent: Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886
subject: Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875
subject: Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886
correspondent: Taylor, Henry, Sir, 1800-1886