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Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness
William Harness to A. G. K. L'Estrange, 18 May 1867
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Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II.
Chapter III.
Chapter IV.
Chapter V.
Chapter VI.
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
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“Kensington Gore,
“May 18, 1867.
“My dear L’Estrange,

“I have not been able to write to you, for the letters take up as much work of my hand as I am able to do . . . Longman has all the MS. of our two first volumes. He fears there
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is more than the public will care for, but says he will look it over and let me hear. He seemed pleased with the offer of the book. I’m doing now 1831; and am more than half through it. The letters to Miss Jephson are very uninteresting to any but the ladies themselves—particularly as their friend Mr. Cathcart* failed at Covent Garden, and afterwards at the Haymarket. He was not quite so bad as her other protégé, Mr. Fitzharris, who failed in ‘Othello’ at Covent Garden: but he was a miserable actor, who, in spite of a good deal of genius and passion, was perfectly incompetent for any but a very subordinate place at a London theatre—such as London theatres were forty years ago. I shall be very glad to see you again.

“Believe me to be,
“Ever yours,
“William Harness.”