- Collection:
- Manuscripts and Printed Material
- Title:
- Letter from Augusta Evans Wilson to Mrs. M.P. Ferris, November 18, [after 1868]
- Creator:
- Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909
- Publisher:
- James Walter Mason Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1868-11-18
- Subject:
- Fiction--Women authors
American literature
Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909--Correspondence
Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909. St. Elmo - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile, 30.69436, -88.04305
- Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
manuscripts (documents) - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Letter written from Mobile, Alabama, and signed Augusta Evans Wilson. Augusta Evans married Confederate veteran Colonel Lorenzo Madison Wilson in 1868. The letter is in response to a question about the relationship of the characters in Wilson's novel, St. Elmo, to real people. The text of the letter: "In reply to your courteous note of the 14th, permit me to say, that "St. Elmo" is entirely a work of fiction, and its characters and incidents have no existence beyond the realm of imagination." Letter written in purple ink on wove paper watermarked with a crown, under which is written "Irish Linen." The letter is mounted into an 1867-printing of St. Elmo.
- Local Identifier:
- PS3332S7_1866
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/printed/id/934
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/printed:934/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This item is in the public domain and may be used without restriction.
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
