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Letter from Ivan Turgenev to Emma Lazarus, September 2, 1874, page 2

Letter from Ivan Turgenev to Emma Lazarus, September 2, 1874, page 2
Letter from Ivan Turgenev to Emma Lazarus, September 2, 1874, page 2.
Courtesy of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.
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2 September 1874
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Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
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Turgenev, Ivan
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the approbation you give to my works- and of the influence you kindly attribute to them on your own talent: an author who writes as you do- is not a "pupil in art" any more; he is not far from being himself a master.
Believe me, my dear Miss Lazarus,
Yours very truly,
I. Tourguéneff

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Letter from Ivan Turgenev to Emma Lazarus, September 2, 1874, page 2." (Viewed on December 25, 2024) <https://jwa.org/media/letter-from-ivan-turgenev-to-emma-lazarus-1>.