Dedication

Name: Cleopatra - Dedication
Author: Henry Rider Haggard

My dear Mother,

I have for a long while hoped to be allowed to dedicate some book
of mine to you, and now I bring you this work, because whatever
its shortcomings, and whatever judgment may be passed upon it by
yourself and others, it is yet the one I should wish you to
accept.

I trust that you will receive from my romance of "Cleopatra" some
such pleasure as lightened the labour of its building up; and that
it may convey to your mind a picture, however imperfect, of the
old and mysterious Egypt in whose lost glories you are so deeply
interested.

Your affectionate and dutiful Son, H. Rider Haggard.

January 21, 1889.

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Chicago: Henry Rider Haggard, "Dedication," Cleopatra, ed. Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915 and trans. Evans, Sebastian in Cleopatra Original Sources, accessed September 7, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=66P9J6RC7HE78YY.

MLA: Haggard, Henry Rider. "Dedication." Cleopatra, edited by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915, and translated by Evans, Sebastian, in Cleopatra, Original Sources. 7 Sep. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=66P9J6RC7HE78YY.

Harvard: Haggard, HR, 'Dedication' in Cleopatra, ed. and trans. . cited in , Cleopatra. Original Sources, retrieved 7 September 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=66P9J6RC7HE78YY.