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RARE \"English Academic\" Henry Morley Hand Written Letter Dated 1859:
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Up for sale a RARE! "English Academic" Henry Morley Hand Written Letter Dated 1859.

was one of the earliest professors of English

literature in Great Britain. Morley wrote a popular book

containing biographies of famous English writers. The son of apothecary Henry Morley, the younger Morley

was born in Hatton Garden,

London. He was educated at a Moravian Church school in Neuwied, Germany and entered King's College London 1838.

Morley graduated in 1843 and became part of the Worshipful

Society of Apothecaries, a professional organization, that same

year. Morley bought into an apothecary practice in Madeley, Shropshire,

but it turned into a financial failure. In 1848, he established a school

in Manchester and started writing in his spare

time. Morley wrote some satirical articles that were published and gained the

attention of Charles Dickens.

At Dickens' invitation, Morley moved to London in 1850 to become an editor of

and a contributor to Dickens' publication, Household Words. When that publication

dissolved, Morley worked for its successor, All the Year Round.

From 1859 to 1864, Morley also edited and wrote for The Examiner.

From 1865 to 1889, Morley served as professor of English literature at University College

London, his students including the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore.

Noted for his knowledge of English literature, Morley was considered to be an

engaging and warm teacher. He also delivered popular lectures on literature in

different parts of Great Britain. From 1882 to 1889, Morley was principal

of University Hall,

a research library in Bloomsbury, London. Morley's

biography was written by Henry Shaen Solly. Morley died on 14 May 1894 in Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight and is buried at Carisbrooke

Cemetery. Morley was the editor of two book series. Morley's Universal

Library, drawing on the concept of a universal library, was published from 1883

by George Routledge. Cassell's National Library was

published from 1886, totalling 209 weekly editions. Morley was the author of

biographies on Bernard Palissy, Heinrich Cornelius

Agrippa, Gerolamo Cardano and Clément Marot. He also wrote introductions to

two books written by John Locke—the 1884

edition of "Two Treatises of

Government" and the 1889 edition of "A Letter

Concerning Toleration". Morley's principal work, however,

was English Writers (10 volumes 1864-94), coming down to William Shakespeare.

His First Sketch of English Literature—the study for the larger

work—had reached at his death a circulation of 34,000 copies. 

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