HARDY THOMAS: (1840-1928)
HARDY THOMAS: (1840-1928) English novelist. A.L.S., T. Hardy, one page, 8vo, Pall Mall, London, 8th June 1907, to Charles Read Nutter, on the printed stationery of The Athenaeum. Hardy states ´You have my permission to use "The Three Strangers" in your book of Selections in Prose Composition´ and continues ´Please print it from the text in the last edition by the Harpers, the magazine form of the story having some discrepancies, if I remember rightly´. Two small, very minor pinholes to the upper left, not affecting the text or signature, VG
Charles Read Nutter (1870-1965) American academic, editor, and educational author. Nutter edited Specimens of Prose Composition, along with Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey and Chester Noyes Greenough, and the work was published by Ginn & Company in 1907 as a textbook for English and rhetoric classes.
The Three Strangers is a short story by Hardy that was first published in Longman´s Magazine and Harper´s Weekly in March 1883. It later it became the first of five stories in Hardy's 1888 short story collection Wessex Tales.
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HARDY THOMAS: (1840-1928) English novelist. A.L.S., T. Hardy, one page, 8vo, Pall Mall, London, 8th June 1907, to Charles Read Nutter, on the printed stationery of The Athenaeum. Hardy states ´You have my permission to use "The Three Strangers" in your book of Selections in Prose Composition´ and continues ´Please print it from the text in the last edition by the Harpers, the magazine form of the story having some discrepancies, if I remember rightly´. Two small, very minor pinholes to the upper left, not affecting the text or signature, VG
Charles Read Nutter (1870-1965) American academic, editor, and educational author. Nutter edited Specimens of Prose Composition, along with Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey and Chester Noyes Greenough, and the work was published by Ginn & Company in 1907 as a textbook for English and rhetoric classes.
The Three Strangers is a short story by Hardy that was first published in Longman´s Magazine and Harper´s Weekly in March 1883. It later it became the first of five stories in Hardy's 1888 short story collection Wessex Tales.
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