Monday, June 21, 2010

Two Inches of Ivory

What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited Sketches, full of Variety and Glow? - How could I join them on to the little bit (two Inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces little effect after much labour?
-Jane Austen, in a letter to her nephew.

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