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Letters to Dead Authors. That kind of Epistle was open to the objection that nobody _would_ write so frankly to a correspondent about his own work, and yet it seemed that the form of Letters might be attempted again. The _Lettres a Emilie sur la Mythologie_ are a well- known model, but Emilie was not an imaginary correspondent. The persons addressed here, on the other hand, are all people of fancy--the name of Lady Violet Lebas is an invention of Mr. Thackeray's: gifted Hopkins is the minor poet in Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's
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