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1893 and continue with a few interruptions until October
1919. They arc often scribbled and illegible.
39 GLB in England, 73L, CEB.
39 Letter from Canterbury, BL, is dated Aug. 13th, 1892,
which cannot be correct since she was in Persia then.
Probably 1893.
39 In London, BL, CEB.
40 I-Iugo. See Hugh Lomthian Bell, by FB and Elsa Richmond,
part 2, and EBL.
40 Journey to Algiers, CEB and UBL, from Avignon,
Basle, Geneva, Potsdam, Berlin and Weimar, April-May
1893-
4i Stepmother’s play, Alan's Wife. Sec Theatre notes by
Archer and Grein and other material in British Library,
listed under Alan's Wife (shelf-mark 2303 e9). See also
contemporary reviews. Play published by Henry & Co.,
Bouverie Street, London, 1893.
4i Works by Lady Bell. Florence’s literary output was con­
siderable between the years 1890 and 1917. Over forty
works are listed by the British Library, several for children,
in French, English and German, and a four-act play The
Dean of St Patrick's, in addition to Alan's Wife.
42 Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters, 1898-1910, ed. Dan H.
Laurence.
42 Shaw to Archer, Jan. 24th, 1900: ‘What I supplied is not
what you wanted: well, follow up Alan’s Wife: even if you
fail, it will freshen you for other successes. There that’s my
advice to you and Miss Elizabeth ... ’ And another letter,
Jan. 27th, 1900: *... Alan’s Wife is the only seed that has
come up as you wanted it.’
43 Letter, July 5th, 1889, BL.
43 Hugh Bell’s writings and speeches. He was a prolific writer
of pamphlets, letters and articles to the Press (his letters to
The Tims and other newspapers between the 1880s and 1930
are too numerous to list), and speech-maker. Characteristic
viewpoints are to be found in his Preface to Baines,
Industrial North, and an address to the National Association
of Merchants and Manufacturers, reprinted in the Contempor­
ary Review for December 1920, on High Wages: their cause and
effect. A favourite quotation was from Herbert Spencer:
‘Any arrangements which in a considerable degree prevent
superiority from profiting by the rewards of superiority, or
shield inferiority from the evils it entails - any arrangements
which tend to make it as well to be inferior as to be superior,