Letter from Charles Kingsley
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line 1: [Previous pages are missing from the collection]
line 2: Chersley Rectory
line 3: Winchfield
line 4: ?? I dare do, is
line 5: Extracts. "Selections"
line 6: Now – How far will
line 7: you trust me to make
line 8: these?
line 9: Of what kind
line 10: do you wish for them,
line 11: as "taking" & "selling"
line 12: stuff?
line 13: Shall they be fromPage 2
line 1: The Fairy Queen alone
line 2: or from all his works
line 3: - as valuable, remem-
line 4: ber, far little known
line 5: as The Fairy Queen?
line 6: Of what size will
line 7: your book be?
line 8: Think over these
line 9: points. You are the Page 3
line 1: best judges of the final
line 2: selection – What will
line 3: sell, in England &
line 4: elsewhere. I am ready
line 5: to accept your opin-
line 6: ions, & to enter into
line 7: engagements when
line 8: we have mutually
line 9: talked over the pro-
line 10: fit. And if youPage 4
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line 2: to ?? to some one
line 3: who will do me
line 4: the kindness, of doing
line 5: what I, I regret,
line 6: must do.
line 7: I am Gentlemen
line 8: Yours faithfully
line 9: C Kingsley