folks, here is a snippet from a Twichell letter, date below:

                                         Keene Valley N.Y. Oct. 2nd 1881

My dear Mark:
         Here is a discourse of George Eliot’s which I would like you to
read at your leisure, not because I think it hits you, (for I do not think
it does: If I thought it did I probably should not have the courage to send
it to you: and if I had the courage I should not deem it best.) but because
it seems to me to put some things of practical concern to you very truly
and forcibly in a manner that you will both approve and appreciate.

It would be swell if I could identify this; but alas

Eliot's article or essay is no longer with the letter and the identity of
the “discourse” by Eliot is unclear.  It evidently puts some things clearly
in a way JT thinks MT would admire.


Anyone have any ideas what this might be??  thanks for leads, --hb





-- 
Prof. Harold K. Bush
Professor of English
3800 Lindell
Saint Louis University
St. Louis, MO  63108
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