Manuscript page written by Julia Ward Howe with photograph.
“I have lately looked into a book whose last words have been much quoted in foreign prints. Tue-la, kill her, is the last word of Dumas fils, author of La Dame aux Camelias, in the supposi-tion case of one wife ______istatly unfaithful. M. Dumas is a writer of melodrama, but the humble ______ terminated by these words is probably the most serious work of his literary life. It is entitled l’homme femme, the man woman. I know not whether it is likely _____ to be so well known here as to make a discussion of its merits useful, if not necessary. It hassome”
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-Julia Ward Howe biography
“I have lately looked into a book whose last words have been much quoted in foreign prints. Tue-la, kill her, is the last word of Dumas fils, author of La Dame aux Camelias, in the supposi-tion case of one wife ______istatly unfaithful. M. Dumas is a writer of melodrama, but the humble ______ terminated by these words is probably the most serious work of his literary life. It is entitled l’homme femme, the man woman. I know not whether it is likely _____ to be so well known here as to make a discussion of its merits useful, if not necessary. It hassome”
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-Julia Ward Howe biography