Frank's Sealed Letter William Morris PC Fleming 1 1856
Short story <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This story is unique among William Morris’s tales in <xref doc="a.ap4.o93.raw">The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine</xref> as the only one with a contemporary setting. The narrative style is similar to that of his other stories. Like most of the stories in the Magazine, this one centers on a dream, or a vision. The narrator, a scorned lover, holds the eponymous letter, from his friend, and imagines a life of nursing his hatred for Mabel, the lover who scorned him.</p> <p>Like Fulford’ story <xref doc="a.Fulford025.raw">The Two Partings</xref>, this story incorporates <xref doc="a.ap4.o93.1.April.rad" from="230">a poem </xref>. This poem would later be included in <title level="bk"> <hi rend="i">The Defense of Guenevere</hi> (1858), under the title “In Prison” (LeMire xxvii).

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First printed in <hi rend="i">The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine</hi> , April, 1856.

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LeMire, Eugene D., ed. <hi rend="i">The Hollow Land</hi> .

The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine text
The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine text The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (April issue) April, 1856 0