HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Autograph letter signed to Lady Cynthia Colville, Max Gate, 14 May 1923 , thanking her for letting him have particulars of 'dear Mrs. Henniker's illness & death', the announcement of her death having come as a surprise to him, 'we did not (people never do) anticipate that the end would be so soon', recalling with satifaction her visit the previous year, 'we took her ... through the beautiful vale of Blackmore - "the country of the Woodlanders" she would always call it (which it is) ... she enjoyed the tour immensely: she was, in fact, just her blythe old self, & seemed no older than she was 30 years before, when I first knew her', 3 pages, 8vo . Florence Ellen Hungerford Henniker (1855-1923), novelist and writer of short stories, was a daughter of Richard Monckton Milnes, first Lord Houghton. Hardy met her in Dublin in 1893 and was deeply attracted to her, their friendship providing him with the impetus to complete Jude the Obscure (1895) and characteristics which he incorporated into his portrayal of Sue Bridehead. The short story which Hardy and Mrs. Henniker wrote together, The Spectre of the Real was published in 1894 in Today . For Hardy's letters to Mrs. Henniker see One Rare Fair Woman: Thomas Hardy's Letters to Florence Henniker 1893-1922 . Ed. Evelyn Hardy and F.B. Pinion, 1972. Not in Purdy and Millgate, Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy .
HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928). Autograph letter signed to Lady Cynthia Colville, Max Gate, 14 May 1923 , thanking her for letting him have particulars of 'dear Mrs. Henniker's illness & death', the announcement of her death having come as a surprise to him, 'we did not (people never do) anticipate that the end would be so soon', recalling with satifaction her visit the previous year, 'we took her ... through the beautiful vale of Blackmore - "the country of the Woodlanders" she would always call it (which it is) ... she enjoyed the tour immensely: she was, in fact, just her blythe old self, & seemed no older than she was 30 years before, when I first knew her', 3 pages, 8vo . Florence Ellen Hungerford Henniker (1855-1923), novelist and writer of short stories, was a daughter of Richard Monckton Milnes, first Lord Houghton. Hardy met her in Dublin in 1893 and was deeply attracted to her, their friendship providing him with the impetus to complete Jude the Obscure (1895) and characteristics which he incorporated into his portrayal of Sue Bridehead. The short story which Hardy and Mrs. Henniker wrote together, The Spectre of the Real was published in 1894 in Today . For Hardy's letters to Mrs. Henniker see One Rare Fair Woman: Thomas Hardy's Letters to Florence Henniker 1893-1922 . Ed. Evelyn Hardy and F.B. Pinion, 1972. Not in Purdy and Millgate, Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy .
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