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'Beware! Beware! Beware!'

Photographic reproduction of a printed page (original numbered 43 and bearing the stamp of Cambridge University Library), the original of which is inscribed in Butler's hand: 'March 31 by S. Butler'. The text is Butler's parody of a Simeonite tract issued in Cambridge; see A.T. Bartholomew's explanatory article, 'Samuel Butler and the Simeonites'.

Typescript beginning 'BEWARE! Beware! Beware!'.

  • Butler/Section 8 (VIII)/1/3a/3
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  • 31 Mar. 1855 (Date of Butler's original MS, recorded here in a note.)
  • Part of Samuel Butler Collection

Typescript copy of Samuel Butler's parody, in 17 numbered points, of a Simeonite tract disseminated by a student of St John's College in 1855. For A.T. Bartholomew's explanation see the article 'Samuel Butler and the Simeonites' [VIII/2/1/1].

Samuel Butler, c. 1858

Mounted half-length portrait of Samuel Butler, seated in an armchair with books on a table beside him, looking into the camera.

Letter fragment from Samuel Butler to [F.C.] Wace

Four-page fragment (pp.9-12 of 12) of an ALS containing part of the article 'Our Emigrant', subsequently published in The Eagle, Vol. II [1861], pp.101-13. The text contained within the letter fragment corresponds to the text of p.109, line 30, to the end of the article. The letter was presented to the collection by Sir John Sandys in 1914, who discovered it in a drawer; see the account published in The Eagle, Vol. XXXV [1914], p.115.

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