Pseudonym of Marian Evans Lewes (1819-1880) who, as the author of Silas Marner and Middlemarch, is remembered as one of the great figures of English literature. Extremely scarce ALS signed “M. E. Lewes,” one page, 4 x 6.25, The Priory letterhead, May 17, 1873. Letter to Joseph Langford, the London manager of her longtime publisher Blackwood of Edinburgh. In full: "Will you kindly send me a copy of the Spanish Gypsy?" In fine condition, with some light soiling. Accompanied by a postcard portrait of Eliot. Eliot wrote The Spanish Gypsy, a lengthy dramatic poem, in 1868. A highly desirable letter requesting one of her lesser-known works.
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