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Five autograph letters signed to the publisher John Lane.
London and Dorchester: 29 June to 29 July 1892 and 31 May 1908. 10 pages, varying size. Two envelopes, with typescripts of four letters, letterhead of the Savile Club, London, and Max Gate, Dorchester. Condition : one letter splitting, occasional spotting. Provenance : Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (bookplate); sale, Frederick B. Adams, Jr., Sotheby's, 7 November 2001, lot 471. To John Lane about Strang's portrait for Lionel Johnson's The Art of Thomas Hardy . These letters were written near the time of Hardy's father's death on 20 July 1892. It was during this period that a relationship between Hardy and the artist William Strang (1859-1921) began. See: Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy I, pp.276, 278, 280; III, pp.318-19.