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Identification: MSS 099, F426
Creator: Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949.
Title: E. Œ. (Edith Œnone) Somerville letter to Butler
Inclusive Dates: 1917 August 13
Extent: 1 item (3 pp.)
Abstract: Letter from E. Œ. (Edith Œnone) Somerville to Mrs. Butler.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 099, F426, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone) Somerville letter to Mrs. Butler, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Shelved in SPEC MSS 099
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Purchase, 1992.
Processed and encoded by Debra Johnson, April 2007.
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Anglo-Irish author Edith Anna Œnone Somerville (1858–1949) partnered with her cousin Violet Martin to write novels under the names “Somerville and Ross."
Sources:
"Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone) , 1858–1949. Literature Online. "http://lion.chadwyck.com (accessed March 28, 2007).
This collection consists of an autograph letter signed by E. Œ. (Edith Œnone) Somerville to Mrs. Butler, concerning permission to reprint letters from Miss Edgeworth to Somerville's and Butler's "mutual great-grandmother." She also has a question about a reference to "Foxites" in an Edgeworth letter.
E. Œ. (Edith Œnone) Somerville letter to Butler, 1917 August 13 [Box 23 F426]
Autograph letter signed, 3 pp.