HW94/3/27

Letter: From Anne Manning (Surrey) to unknown recipient, regarding health and publishing books.

7 October 1862

From: 1862 To: 1862

Reads: Your letter duly reached me, and I reproach myself for not having sooner acknowledged them, but I have been poorly and disinclined for writing. I am glad to tell you my little story is in the printer’s hands, and will come out in December. I have not altered the title for though “Giulia Gonzaga, Duchess of Trajetto” would unquestionably be the proper one for the biography, it is too lengthy for a little tale, and would give it an air of assumption. At least that is my view of it; and the motto on the title page would be tautologous if the names were given twice over. I have not made as good a money bargain for myself as I had hoped; but my publishers have just dissolved partnership, and I could not be hard on Mr. Hall while he does not see this way very clearly. I hope your little excursion did you good. This is very rheumatic…an old man of this place wears a skin of scarlet worsted would his body, to keep off rheumatism. Another professes fourth in a hare’s foot carried in the pocket! The reign of superstition is not yet ended. Strange as it may seem I have not yet learnt my Uncle’s proper address. But I think your letter must have reached him or it would have been returned to you. He is very old and infirmed now.

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Manning, Anne,
Hall

Surrey, illness, health, family correspondence, books, publisher, superstition