6/12/2012

Wm to H'ry, Jan. 17, 1893. Age: 51

Wm's praise for Vernon Lee (pen name of Violet Paget) will wind up rubbing H'ry the wrong way:

"Miss Violet Paget wrote the other day asking when she might call, we replied that we would call on her first, and have been waiting for a day to do it.  Meanwhile I have just read 1/2 of her Euphorion, which so far I find simply magnificent for perception, style constructive criticism etc.  How comes it you never bragged of her more?  She beats Symonds & Pater and all of them."

Paget's Euphorion: Being Studies of the
Antique and the Medieval in the Rennaissance
appeared in 1887.

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