Letters Between Samuel Butler and Miss E.M.A. Savage 1871-1885.

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London (1935). 8vo. Original cloth. Dustjacket (slightly rubbed). (380pp.). Portrait frontispiece of Miss Savage. 1st edition. Fine copy in very good dj. NOTE: Miss Savage was Samuel Butler's closest woman friend. He consulted her freely about his books sending her everything he wrote for her approval. She was the basis of the character Alethea Pontifex in Butler's novel The Way of All Flesh.