- 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:
- New-York: Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway ; London: S. Low, Son & Co., MDCCCLXVII
- 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
United States, 39.76, -98.5 - Medium:
- letters
manuscripts - 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
- External Identifiers:
- 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.
- Additional Rights Information:
- The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
- Original Collection:
- Rare Book Collection;Rare Book Collection;||James Walter Mason CollectionJames Walter Mason Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
