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{"value"=>"10 May 1797", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1797-05-10"}
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{"value"=>"Autograph letter signed"}
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 1/2 pages", "unit"=>"pages"}, {"name"=>"physfacet", "value"=>"double sheet"}]}
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{"value"=>"MISC File"}
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{"value"=>"<p>From Oxford; discussing Lee's novel <em>The Canterbury Tales</em> (1757) and subscriptions to the second volume of her own <em>Elegiac Sonnets</em> (1797); begins, \"I should not Dear Madam have been so long before I wrote to thank you for your kind remembrance of me in sending me your very entertaining book ....\" Also bemoaning the current state of the novel: \"In the present morbid state of public mind when nothing but the supernatural or the licentious, seems to be eagerly sought by the multitude, it becomes almost a duty for good writers to endeavour to retain some part of the World, in a better taste.\" Mounted to an album leaf.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"Not in Collected Letters. Published in \"Charlotte Smith to Thomas Cadell, Sr., and Harriet Lee: Two New Letters\" Keats-Shelley Journal volume 57 (2008), page 40"}
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