Item 122 - Letter from G. H. Lewes to Edmund Gurney

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Add. MS c/101/122

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Letter from G. H. Lewes to Edmund Gurney

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  • [1870s?] (Creation)

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Lewes, George Henry (1817-1878), writer
(1817-1878)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Explains that Gurney's 'seductive invitation' has arrived just as he is recovering from an attack of gout, and adds that his wife [Marian: George Eliot] is still ill. States that he would be delighted to [ ] his Cambridge experiences at the end of May, suggesting the 30th of that month. Hopes to see Gurney many times before that. Reports that the previous day he was at the rehearsal of the 'Brahms and Joachim pieces', which, he laments he cannot [leave/have] at Cambridge.

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