xt7qjq0stw34_3823 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection John Addington Symonds letter to [Theodore] Marzials text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. John Addington Symonds letter to [Theodore] Marzials 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_37/Folder_76/Multipage13075.pdf 1889 January 27 1889 1889 January 27 
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Peal accession no. 10583f. Includes a transcript and a summary of the letter.
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 Jan. 27,1889

My dear Mr. Marzials

In reply to yours of the 22d. I may say that I am
willing to undertake Boccaccio for the "Cheat
Writers“ under a certain condition Wh. I will
explain.

The manuscript which I told you I had written
on Boccaccio about a year ago, was intended to
serve as Introduction to a new translation of
the Becameron. Vizetelly was the publisher,
who requested me to do it.

The translation has not been heard of by me
since last Feb. 7 & I have seen nothing of
it.

I wrote to Vizetelly about five weeks ago,
begging to be informed whether he still
meant to go on with the book.

No answer has reached me to this letter.
I have today written again to say that I

consider our agreement at an end. I myself at
liberty to make what use I like of my Ms.

I must await his answer before I definitely
engage myself to you. I should greatly prefer to
publish what I have to say about Boccaccio in
your series than as an Introduction to a
translation wh. may not prove to my taste.

I shall have to reqrite the whole & add a good
deal of matter. But this, as I know by
experience, will improve my work.

Your Victor Hugo has not come to hand yet.

Very truly yours
J 0A.. smonés

 

 SYMONDS, John Addington (18h0-1893)
Author and critic. DaVas Platz.

A.L.S. to Theodore Marzials (b.1850).

27 Jan. 1889. hp. (doable sheet, octave)
With embossed address of: Am.Hof, DaVaS
Platz, Switzerland.

He explains that the introduction be wrote

for Vizetelly) for a news translation of the
Decemeron, has not bee called for. If that
work does not proceed, he will be glad to rework
his essay into a life of Boccaccio for the
"Great writers" series. (Symonds Life Of
Boccaccio appeared in 1895.) .