1899-03-19 to Adele Levis Meyer

Autograph letter signed, University of Iowa, 203 words

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92 Victoria Street

Sunday [19 March 1899]

Dear Mrs. Carl Meyer

I send you the review containing Tourgueneff’s letters . They will interest you here and there but they are often trivial. Then the suppression of all the love passages has deprived them of their real interest. However, I send them.

The name of the lady who is translating my novel is Anna Gerstmann; I hope she is the same as the woman you spoke of and of whose abilities you think so highly.

My publisher is going to bring out a six-penny edition of Esther Waters. The temptation to revise the text was irresistable, I had to give way, and am now deep in emendations. I had quite forgotten my book and am agreeably surprised. It is commonly, somewhat coursely written in places, but mere writing is a pleasure and I hope — well, I don’t know what I hope but I am rather pleased.

Let me have your Berlin address so that I may send it to Dr. Heilborn, but I hope to see you before you leave.

Very sincerely

George Moore