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  Mrs. T unburdened with cares
domestic social and public keeps
always a free mind for all
written thought whether of memoir
history or fiction - when a dear
woman was refusing Adam Bede when first published on the
score of the author's ungodliness Mrs
Tyler was reading it aloud to her
husband, [?] filled with its charm and
power - Indeed they were for a long
time the only persons in town the
village who knew anything about it
the book George Eliot


H bMS Am 1118.95, Box 9


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