Papers, 1901-1950, of English literature
at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
This collection is open for research.
Arranged chronologically.
This collection contains mostly correspondence from major figures in English
literature between 1901-1950. It also includes literary works, including manuscripts
and bound volumes; financial records; and legal documents.
Note on Indexing Term - "Bloomsbury Group": Of particular interest are page proofs for the
British edition of
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf dated 1925.
Note on Indexing Term - "Art": Of particular
interest are 1849 pen and ink sketch by William Makepeace Thackeray; extra- illustrations in an 1868 edition
of Edward Fitzgerald's The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; 1897 engraving of Rudyard Kipling; Of Gardens,
an Essay designed, written and illuminated in 1905 by Alberto Sangorski and a 1922 autographed
photograph of James Joyce taken by Man Ray. Also included is the following undated material: watercolor
illustrations for The Merry Old Man... by Charlotte Adams; drawings and text for Funny Figures for FunLoving Little Folks
by Edward Bradley; Sherlock Holmes drawings in black and colored crayon by
Gilbert Kieth Chesterton; watercolor and pen and ink drawings by Edward Henry Corbould for Faerie
Tales... by Maria Corbould; watercolor drawings for The dis-astrous ride; drawings for The Good
Prenctice at work at the Loom... and paper doll books: Frank Fainwell's Attempts to Amuse His Friends,
The History and adventures of Little Henry and The History of little Fanny....
Note on Indexing Term - "English Poetry": Of interest are
items by Robert Burns, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and William Wordsworth.
Note on Indexing Term - "Women": Of interest is a
corrected typescript of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, as well as other items.
Series:
English literature mss.
Arranged chronologically at the item level.
Box 5
1901 Jan. 6 -
Gosse, Sir Edmund William, 1849-1928, author. 29
Delamere Terrace, Westbourne Square, W., [London, England]. To "My Dear
Sir." "Happy to inscribe volumes you speak of."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby, Lilly, Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana.
1956
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1901 Jan. 12 -
LeQueux, William Tufnell, 1864-1927, author. Villa
Teresa. Ardenza, Livorno, Italy. To "Dear Madam." Hopes his books have
given her some entertainment.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Removed from LeQueux’s
Blake, the butler …
London, Jarrolds, [c.
1923]. (Lilly PR6023 .E745B6). 1958
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1901 Jan. 18 -
Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959, author. 20, Belmont,
Bath, [England]. To Sir [Henry John] Newbolt. "In case you would like to
add it to the poem, I have copied down the inscription on the Bevil
Granville [sic] monument …".
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 15cm.
- Inscription as copied by Housman is written on the
verso
Purchased. 1972
[1901 May 1] -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. The Cearne,
Kent Hatch, Edenbridge. To [Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "We expect you &
your wife this week…I will meet you at Westerham, Saturday, there. Send
a card to say if this is all right."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1901 May 13 -
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921, poet. 76 Eaton Rise,
Ealing, W. To [Clement King] Shorter. "What I gave you this morning was
the only existing copy of the lines…. Oblige … and correct the print by
the version on the 3d side of this."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 17.5cm.
- On verso: two verses, both beginning
Salaam to Omar! Autograph Document Signed, dated
13:V:1901
Removed from Dobson,
Verses read at the dinner of
the Omar Khayyám Club …25th March 1897
. London: Printed at
the Chiswick Press, 1897 (Lilly PR4606 .V56
copy 2) 1989
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1901 Aug. 10 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist,
novelist. Black Lake cottage, Nr. Farnham, Surrey,
[England]. To Mr. Lestorg. Refers to his play
"Quality Street."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1901 Oct.3 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. The Cearne,
Kent Hatch, Edenbridge. To [Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "Here: The Essay on
Criticism I should like to know just the exact effect it makes on
your—without any delicate laudations… Also point out any weaknesses that
may strike you."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 24cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1902 Mar. 10 -
Martin, William Wilsey, 1833- , poet. Union
Society, Oxford. To Mrs. Treacher. "I shall be very pleased to join you,
at Tea, on Wednesday next; and to meet your Norwegian friends."
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 15cm.
Removed from William Wilsey Martin,
Quatrains,
Life’s Mystery and other Poems.
London, Elkin Mathews, 1891.
1969
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1902 June 6 -
Ryan, William Patrick, 1867-1942, author. 12E,
Coldharbour Lane, Denmark Hill, [London], S.E. To [Theodore]
Watts-Dunton. Comments on the publication of an illustrated edition of
Watts-Dunton’s
Aylwin as well as some
short stories of his own. Explains his long silence and lack of literary
activity – "The past couple of years have been practically ones of
ceaseless anxiety…to say nothing of financial trouble and such things as
one can explain to a very few."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 16cm.
Removed from Ryan’s
Literary London: its lights
and comedies,
London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. (Lilly PR591 .R989). 1976
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1902 Dec. 25 -
Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844-1930, poet.
Yattendon, [Berkshire, England.] To Sir [Henry John] Newbolt. "I am
sending the Elegy, a somewhat illegible draft of it, but the only one I
have, and I have not the patience to write it out again."
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 19cm.
- Enclosed with letter is R[obert Seymour] B[ridges] Elegy,
n.d., Autograph Document Signed 7 leaves, 21cm.
- Corrections written in and pasted on draft of poem.
- Note in upper left hand corner reads: Monthly Review proof to
Editor & to R. Bridges at the Manor House Yattendon
Newbury
Purchased. 1972
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[1903, Feb. 20] -
Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939, poet. My uncles
old servant… [note].
Autograph Document Signed 1p. 17cm.
- Ten lines, in blue ink
- Text in full: "My uncles old servant Mary Battle, who saw the
vision of Queen Maude said of this poem ‘It is so natural. It is
just the way it would have happened! But no I am wrong it was a
servant who came while Mary Battle was ill that said
this."
- Below is pencilled note by J[ohn] Rogers Rees: "The above was
written by the author whilst staying with me at ‘Avondale,’
Llandaff, Feb. 20:1903"
On front fly-leaf of Yeats,
The land of heart’s
desire
. Chicago: Stone & Kimball, 1814 [i.e. 1894]. (Lilly PR5904 .L2 1894a) 1987
1903 Sept. 25 -
Le Queux, William Tufnell, 1864-1927, novelist.
Castor, Peterborough [England]. To "My dear Everett." "My secretary has
somehow unfortunately mislaid the proofs of
"The Treasure of the Sherburns"
…."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20cm.
Purchased. 1975
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1903 Oct. 11 -
Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923, author. 7,
Northwick Terrace, N.W. [London, England.] To Henry D. Davray. "I’m
afraid that I cannot promise to read … all new proofs at such short
notice; and the fact is that I am so busy that I would gladly not read
them at all."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 25cm.
Removed from Hewlett,
Little novels of
Italy
, London, Chapman & Hall, 1899 (Lilly PR4787 .L3). 1973
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Bound
1903 Nov. 23 -
1904 Mar. 1 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart. 1860-1937, dramatist and
novelist. [Peter Pan]. "To Maude Adams.
This, the M.S. of
Peter Pan, from her
humble servant and affectionate friend. J.M. Barrie."
Autograph Document Signed [84]p. 20cm.
- In ink with holograph corrections.
- Differs considerably from the printed version.
The Plays of J.M. Barrie, Peter
Pan
…London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1928. (Lilly PR4074 .P4 2 copies).
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
Box 5
1903 Nov. 24 -
Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926, author. The
Sphere, The Tatler, Great New Street, Fetter Lane, E.C., [London,
England]. To Grant Richards, 48 Leicester Square, W.C., [London,
England]. "I would always rather ignore a book when I do not like it. I
do not care for
"Uther and Igraine"
;
it seems to me Maurice Hewlett very much watered down. Meanwhile I see
you have gorgeous reviews from all kinds of brilliant people - Coulson
Kernahan and the TIMES."
Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1974
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[19]03 Dec. 1 -
Gilchrist, Robert Murray, 1868-1917, author.
Cartledge Hall, Homesfield, Nr. Sheffield. To [William] Morris Colles.
States that he is willing to accept £3/3/1 for
"Camsdale Fair"
. Presently working at the
short stories and Colles shall have them soon. The Omar dinner went
well; "Bruce Ingram and Clement Shorter were agreeable".
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
- Receipt date stamped: 2 Dec.
03
Removed from Gilchrist,
Beggar’s Manor.
London, William Heinemann, 1903 (Lilly PR6013
.I31B42). 1980
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1904 Jan. 20 -
Munro, Neil, 1864-1930, author. Carnus, Tower
Drive, Gourock, [Scotland]. To "My dear Sir." "Selection of poems &
Songs for the Burns."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Removed from Munro’s
The new road …
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1914 (Lilly PR5101 .M4N4). 1964
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1904 Feb. 16 -
Freeman, Richard Austin, 1862-1943 author. 2
Woodville Terrace, Gravesend, [England]. To James B. Pinker. Thanking
him for books.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Freeman’s
Dr. Thorndyke
intervenes
… London and Stoughton, 1933 (Lilly PR6011 .R33D5). 1958
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1904 Feb. 18 -
Munro, Neil, 1864-1930, author. Carnus, Tower
Drive, Gourock, [Scotland]. To "My dear Sir." Edition of Burns poems.
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 18cm.
Removed from Munro’s
The new road ...
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1914 (Lilly PR5101 .M4N4). 1964
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1904 Mar. 31 -
Evans, Charles. Parkstone, Dorset. To Murray, Sir
John, 1841-1914, geographer, author. "My dear (?) Murray. Your friend
spoke to me this afternoon of Clough's Long Vacation Pastoral..."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 17.5cm.
Removed from Clough’s
Poems and Prose
Remains
London, MacMillan and Co, 1869 (Lilly PR4455 .A2 1869). 1992
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1904 Apr. 29 -
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906, critic, librarian. 27
Tanza Road, Hampstead. To [Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "I … fear … you are
not in a condition of health just now to undertake either the monograph
I have been proposing or that on Cruickshank."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1904 May 2 -
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906, critic, librarian. 27
Tanza Road, Hampstead. To [Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "I am very glad to
hear that you feel sufficiently well to work upon the Cruickshank…
Fortunately information respecting George Cruickshank if plentiful,
though you may have to spend some time at the Museum."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1904 Sept. 5 -
Coleridge, Ernest Hartley, 1846-1920, editor. 167
S. James Road, Croydon. To Mrs. Hampden Emshiel?, Wallingford. Discusses
some Nelson letters to Sothebys to be sold.
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 20cm.
Purchased. 1969
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[1904, Oct.] -
Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939, poet dramatist.
"Had I the heavens’ embroidered clothes" [first line of poem.].
Autograph Poem Signed 1p. 18cm.
- The date October 1904 written in
pencil, presumably to indicate the date of the
inscription.
Written on front flyleaf of Yeats,
The Wanderings
of Oisin, and other poems
. London, Kegan Paul, Trench &
Co., 1889. (Lilly PR5904 .W2 1889b). 1970
1904 Dec. 24 -
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906, critic, librarian. 27
Tanza, Hampstead. To [Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "I am much gratified by
your reminder of old acquaintances by the beautiful photograph you have
sent me, which is particularly interesting to me from the connection
with Arthur."
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 11cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1905 Apr. 3 -
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928, novelist. To Violet Hunt,
South Lodge,Campden Hilll,, Kensington, London, W., [England]. Regrets
absence from London obviates engagements.
Autograph Postcard Signed 9cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1905 June 5 -
Farrar, Lucy Mary (Cardew), 1841-1921. Glenthorne,
Grove Park, Chiswick, W. To "My dear Lord Archbishop." Edition of
Frederic William Farrar poems.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 15cm.
Removed from Farrar, Frederic William,
Verses ... Edinburgh, Ballantyne, Hanson, n.d. (Lilly
PR4699.F18 V56). 1980
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1905 June 24 -
Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906, critic, librarian. 27
Tanza Road, Hampstead. To Mrs. [Nora (Hopper)] Chesson. "I trust that
Mr. Chesson has borne the removal well, and the good effects of change
of air and scene will soon be apparent."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1905 July 17 -
Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, author. 1, Marloes Road,
Kensington, W. To [Wilfred Perrett]. "I would not possibly find a way …
to give the general public an idea of your erudition… I congratulate you
in them."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 18cm.
Purchased. 1975
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1905 Aug. 8 -
Russell, William Clark, 1844-1911, novelist. 9
Sydney Place, Bath, [England]. To Dr. Alexander. Concerns Bret Harte’s
only daughter being in such dire need as to require an urgent appeal to
the public for help."
Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1905 -
Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626, philosopher.
"Of Gardens, an Essay."
Designed,
Written Out, and Illuminated by Alberto Sangorski.
Document 27p. 19.6cm.
- Bound.
- Parchment covers, sewn, with green grosgrain ribbon
ties.
- Written on vellum.
- Title page illuminated in pink and white roses with border in
gold.
- One illuminated river scene surrounded by plums; one
illuminated garden scene; and nine illuminated initials.
- Note laid in: Presented to me [Elisabeth W. Ball] by Eben
Frances Thompson.
Gift 1984 from the estate of Elisabeth Ball.
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1906 Mar. 21 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist and
novelist. Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, W. [London,
England]. To [Sir Sidney] Colvin. "Let us wait now till my play is
produced in a fortnight’s time."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1906 May 10 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. The Cearne,
Kent Hatch, Edenbridge. To [ Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "Will you post me …
MS of your Irish Travels … Never mind the last chapter. I think
Duckworth would … make you an offer for it … I would give you my opinion
of it."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1906 June 11 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. The Cearne,
Kent Hatch, Edenbridge. To [Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "The books arrived
here on Saturday. Again many thanks for your generous gift. I regard it
indeed as half your wife: … I shall always treasure them on both your
accounts."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1906 July 31 -
Gregory, Isabella Augusta (Persse) lady, 1859-1932, poet,
dramatist. Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway. Calling card
with date and signature written in.
Autograph Document Signed 1p. 9cm.
- J.M. Synge in a letter to Lady Gregory on July 24, 1906, said that on
Friday Karel Musek would come to see her. See
Letters of John M. Synge to Lady Gregory a
nd W.B. Yeats
… The Cuala Press, Dublin, Ireland,
1971 (PR5533 .A4 1971) page
32-33
Removed from Gregory,
Irish Folk-History
plays
. London and New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912 (Lilly PR4728 .G5I68) vol. 1. 1975
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1907 Aug. 28 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist and
novelist. Dhivach Lodge, Drumnadrochit, Scotland. To
Winifred Geoghegan. Pensionnat des Dames. Vracene Waes Belgique. Refers
to her progress with French. Also comments on their visit in the Scotch
Highlands.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1907 Dec. 11 -
Pemberton, Alice Agnes (Tussaud). To A[rthur] J.G.
Challis, Chaterfield Hall, Fyfield, Ongar, [England]. "Am sending photo
promised".
Autograph Postcard Signed 8.5cm.
- Verso is photograph of Troston Hall, Bury St. Edmunds,
Suffolk, as noted on flyleaf of Sir Max Pemberton,
Aladdin of London.
- Recipient’s first name given in inscription in Pemberton’s
Aladdin of London, dated
April 27, 1908
- Postmarked: Ixworth
Removed from Pembwerto,
Aladdin of London,
New York, Empire Book Company, 1907 (Lilly
PR6031 .E5A31). 1980
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1908 Jan. 1 -
Sidgwick, Frank, 1879-1939 To Wade, Allen.
Inscription.
1p. 20.5cm.
Removed from Yeats, William,
Discoveries,
Dundrun, Dun Emer Press, 1907 (Lilly PR5904
.D45). 1980
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1908 Mar. 7 -
Russell, William Clark, 1844-1911, novelist. 9
Sydney Place, Bath. To "Dear Sir." Deals with an article which would be
about sea literature "and the original merits of certain great American
sea novelists, including R.H. Dana and Herman Melville."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1908 Mar. 25 -
Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921, poet. To Rossiter
Johnson. Appreciates kind proposal but "cannot undertake the papers in
question."
Typescript 1p. 28cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby, Lilly,Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana 1956
1908 Apr. 4 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist and
novelist. Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, W. To
[Winifred Geoghegan]. Thanks her for the photograph and comments on it.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1908 Apr. 16 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist,
novelist. Black Lake Cottage, Nr. Franham,
Surrey,[England]. To "My dear Phil." Asks to be excused from attending
meetings.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1908 Dec. 16 -
Wells, Herbert George, 1866-1946, author. To
"Cazenove." Sale of books.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20cm.
- Signed with monogram.
- Typescript filed under date of December 16, 1908, in English literature mss.
- Back of envelope carrying P.S. mounted on succeeding leaf of
Wells’
Kipps.
Mounted at front of Wells’
Kipps… London,
Macmillan, 1905. (Lilly PRE5774 .K5) 1964
1908 Dec. 23 -
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922, author.
Newbuildings place, Southwater, Sussex. To [Wilfred] Meynell. Christmas
plans; his correspondence with Charles Meynell.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 20cm.
Mounted on inside of front cover of Blunt’s
Proteus and Amadeus: a correspondence, edited by Aubrey de
Vere
. London, C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878. (Lilly BT100 .D4) 1964
Bound
1908 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist.
The Old wives’ tale.
Autograph Document 169, 152p. 25 cm.
- Two bound volumes in green morocco
- In ink with illuminated title pages and holograph
corrections
- Inscription presenting it as a gift to his wife, Dorothy
Cheston Bennett, December 18,
1925, on p. 169 of volume I.
- Reproduced in facsimile from the author’s manuscript and
published omitting the inscription presenting the manuscript as
a gift to his wife. London, Ernest Benn Limited and New York,
George H. Doran Company, 1927. (Lilly
PR6003 .E6 05 v.1 and v.2).
- Printed version. New York, Hodder and Stoughton, 1909. Published with an introduction by
Frank Swinnerton and illustrations by John Austen. Oxford,
[England], printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club
at the University press, 1941 (Lilly
P56003 .E6 05, 1941 v.1 and v.2).
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
Box 5
1909 Apr. 6 -
Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923, author. 7
Northwick Terrace, N.W. [London, England]. To [Austin] Dobson. "…here’s
the little book…you will see that I have taken myself by the shoulders
and stepped thoughts on to the title page…"
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25 cm.
From the Austin Dobson Library.
Removed from Hewlett,
Aremesion: idylls and
songs
, London, Mathews, 1909
(Lilly PR4787 .A9 1909). 1976.
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1909 May 26 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. 3 Henrietta
Street, Convent Garden, W.C. To [Wilford Hugh] Chesson. "Tiggert is a
true poet… It is useless however to expect any ordinary publisher to
lose money in their publication."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20 cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1909 June 9 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist,
novelist. Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate W. [London,
England]. To "Sir Sidney Colvin. Concerning the disposition of the house
and famous chalet of George Meredith.
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 18 cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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[19]09, Sept. 14 -
Lyons, Albert Michael Neil, 1880-1940, playwright.
More’s Cottage, Wivelsfield Green, Sussex, [England]. To [John] Lane. "I
return the proofs herewith…. I am forwarding your letter to Mrs. Calder
and am asking her to give you what information she can. I don’t know
anything about the reference myself."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 12.5 cm.
- Mounted on verso of free endpaper at end
- Inscription by author on front endpaper, Sept. 14, 1908
In Lyons,
Arthur’s. London; New York: John
Lane, 1908. (Lilly PR6023 .Y6 A79) 1987
[1909] Oct. 17 -
Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844-1930, poet.
Chilswell, Oxford. To John Lane, Bodley Head, Vigo St., London. W.
"Papers received. Will try to get you some signatures tomorrow before
returning it."
Autograph Card Signed 9 cm.
Removed from Bridges,
The Shorter Poems of Robert
Bridges
, London, Geo Bell & Sons, 1890 (Lilly PR4161 .B6A17 1890). 1974
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1909 Oct.
25-1910 Aug. 21 -
Rolfe, Fredrick William, 1860-1913, novelist. Some
inedited [sic] letters (unpublished) of Baron Corvo, 1909-1910.
Typed (carbon) Document 75 p. 26 cm.
- Bound
- Written in Venice, Italy
- Recipient unknown but probably C. Masson Fox (see items dated
1910, 7 & 31 Mar., 15 Apr., 12 May, and 6 July)
- Includes 23 letters, 2 telegrams
- Also on title page: They led A.J.A. Symons to make "The Quest
for Corvo" See Chaps. I & XVI He bought the originals from
Christopher Millard for ₤25 and sold them to Maundy Gregory for
₤150
Transfer. Book Dept. Lilly Library. 1991
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1910 Feb. 10 -
Bottomley, Gordon, 1874-1948, author. Well Knowe
House Cartmel By Carnforth. To Mr. [Charles Elkin] Mathews, "…send me a
copy of my "Gate of Smaragdus" at your first convenience. …wondered if
you had any news of the cases of Mr. [Yone] Noguchi’s "Pilgrimage."
Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 18 cm.
- Stationery watermark: OUR CLUB
Removed from Gordon Bottomley,
The Gate of
Smaragdus
, London: At the sign of the Unicorn, 1904. (Lilly PR6003. O67G2). 1977
1910 Feb. 20 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. Royal York
Hotel, Brighton, [England]. To E[dward] F[ordham] Spence, 75 Bedford
Court, Bedford Square, W.C., London, [England]. "I have been waiting for
a long time to encounter you; but a playwright who seeks out a dramatic
critic may put himself in a false position."
Autograph Letter Signed 3 p. 21 cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1910 May 14 -
Masefield, John, 1878-1967, poet. G[rea]t Hampden,
Missenden, Bucks, [England]. To [C.F.] Cazenove. Concerns issuance of
volume containing Salt Water Ballads and Tarpaulin Muster stories.
Autograph Letter Signed 2 p. 18 cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
1910 Aug. 23 -
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933, novelist. 14 Addison
Road, W. To [?]. Declines an invitation to an dinner of the Harrow
Association honoring Sir Charles Hardinge.
Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.
- Letter written in the third person
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1910 Oct. 11 -
Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923, author. 7,
Northwick Terrace, N.W., [London, England]. To W[illiam] M[orris]
Colles, Esq. "By all means get me the Swedish rights in Rest Harrow, and
any other rights that are to be had."
Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 25 cm.
- Stamped "Received 17 Oct 10"
Removed from Hewlett,
Rest Harrow, London,
Macmillan, 1910 (Lilly PR4787 .R4). 1973
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Box 6
1911 Jan. 24 -
Way, Thomas Robert, 1861-1913, bookseller, author.
6 & 7 Gough Square, Fleet Street, E.C., London. To Dr. [George
Charles] Williamson. Sends him 8 catalogs pertaining to James Abbot
McNeill Whistler.
Autograph Letter Signed 1 p. 20 cm.
Removed from Whistler’s
"ten o’clock"
,
London: Chatto and Windus, 1885. (Lilly N7445
.W576). 1976.
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1911 May 27 -
White, William Hale, 1831-1913, novelist. The
Cottage, Groombridge, Kent, [England]. To [Thomas George] Bain. "I dare
say you have seen the correspondence and leading articles in the Times
about the sale of Bunyan’s copy of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 15cm.
Purchased. 1972
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1911 June 8 -
White, William Hale, 1831-1913, novelist. The
Cottage, Groombridge, Kent, [England]. To [Thomas George] Bain. "You
have done me a great service …You shall have the catalogue back in a day
or two."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 15cm.
Purchased. 1972
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1911 Nov. 29 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. Duckworth &
Co., 3 Henrietta Street, Convent Garden, W.C., [London, England]. To
[William Henry] Hudson. "I send you Sturge Moore, ‘A Sicilian Idyll’. I
think its really better than anything he has done."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 21 cm.
Removed from Thomas Sturge Moore,
A Sicilian
Idyll
…London, Duckworth & Co., 1911 (Lilly PR6025 .O6S5). 1973
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1911 Dec. 23 -
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960, author. Torguay. To
"My dear Percy." "Accept my new book ‘Dance of the Months’ as a small
expression of the great regard in which Emily & I always hold you."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 12cm.
Mounted in Phillpotts’
Dance of the
months
. London and Glasgow, Gowans and Gray, Ltd., 1911 (Lilly PR5177 .D17). 1969
[1911?] -
Photograph of Henry Major Tomlinson with his son
Henry Charles Tomlinson.
Photograph 8 x 11cm.
- Accompanied by photograph of Mrs. Florence Margaret (Hammond)
Tomlinson, (Mrs. Henry Major Tomlinson), and children.
Removed from Tomlinson,
All our
yesterdays
, New York & London, Harper & Brothers, 1930. (Lilly PR6039 .O35A7 1930). 1967
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1912 Jan. 24 -
Vallings, Harold, 1857-1927, author. 8 Dordrecht
Mansion, Brook Green, W. To [Morris) Colles.
Autograph Letter Signed 2 pp. 17.5 cm.
Removed from Vallings,
The Smugglers of Haven
Quay
. London, Warne, Frederick, 1911 (Lilly PR6043.A36 S66). 1981
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[19]12 May 20 -
Cooper, J W, 1852-, cyclist. Kingarth House, 9,
Colyton Road, East Dulwich, S.E., [London]. To [Charles George] Harper.
Requests that Harper fill in the distances from his book Cycle Rides
Round London so that he can choose runs within his "physical powers",
having turned sixty. Has read the book "with great pleasure."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 17cm.
- Accompanied by ten pages in ink of holograph directions for
cycling trips, a print of the illustration from page 76 of
Cycle Rides entitled "The
Stocks," and three clippings relative to paragraphs in the
book.
Removed from Harper,
Cycle Rides Round
London
. London, Chapman & Hall, 1902 (Lilly DA630 .H293). 1980
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1912 Sept. 13 -
Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937, poet, dramatist. 38
Drayton Road, King’s Heath, Birmingham. To May Morris. Asks for her
approval of his work and for a "scrap of William Morris’s writing."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
Source unknown. 1963
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1912 Sept. 27 -
Hutchinson, Arthur Stuart Menteth, 1879-1971,
novelist. 53 Croftdown Road, Highgate Road, N.W. [London,
England]. To "My dear Shelley." "A whole sheaf of autobiographical notes
for your kind pen to do with what you will."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
- Accompanied by autobiographical sketch. Autograph Document 8p.
20cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
1912 Oct. 23 -
Reade, Alfred Arthur, 1851-, author. Ferndale,
Wilmslow, near Manchester. To Cyril B[ryun] Andrews. Sends him copy of
his book and complains of the lack of reviews in the press.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Removed from Reade’s
The tragedy of the
streets
, Wilmslow, Manchester, Reade, 1912. (Lilly HV4008 .L8 R285). 1976
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1912 Nov. 1 -
Jones, Henry Festing, 1851-1928, author. London. To
[Edmund] Gosse. Refers to Butler’s note-books and an invitation to
dinner.
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 18cm.
Removed from Samuel Butler’s
The
note-books…Selections arranged and edited by Henry Festing
Jones
…London, A.C. Fifield, 1912
(Lilly PR4349 .B7N6). 1964.
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1912 Nov. 20 -
White, William Hale, 1831-1913, novelist. The
Cottage, Groombridge, Kent, [Emgland]. To [Thomas George] Bain. "I am
glad to hear you can stick to your work. Do not give up so long as you
can crawl."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 15 cm.
Purchased. 1972
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1912 Nov. 28 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. 14 St.
Simon’s avenue, Putney S.W. To W[illiam] H[enry] Rideing. Refers to an
article of 1500 words in length. "I am afraid that the subject which you
have suggested does not make a very strong appeal to me." He states that
the book
Teresa of Watling Street is an
early production.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
Removed from Arnold Bennett’s,
Those United
States
…London, Martin Decker, [1912] (Lilly PR6003 .E6T55). 1964
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1912 Nov. -
Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939, poet, dramatist.
"A unknown thing, that maybe nothing, But that, the buyer’s risk."
Autograph Note Signed 1p. 7cm.
Removed from Yeats,
The wanderings of Oisin, and
other poems
. London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889 (Lilly PR5904 .W2 1889a). 1970
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[19]13 Dec. 3 -
Oxford, Arnold Whitaker, 1854-, author. Sterne
House, 45, Old Bond Street, W. To "Dear Sir." Cannot answer his query
since his books are elsewhere and cannot be consulted. Send his latest
bibliography.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 17.8cm.
Removed from Oxford,
Notes from a collector’s
catalogue
. London: J. and E. Bumpus, 1909 (Lilly Z5776 .G2 O9). 1990
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[1914] Feb. 16 -
Moore, George, 1852-1933, novelist. 121 Ebury
Street, [London] S.W., [England]. To Mr. Palmer. "I’m afraid that my
days for writing articles are over and done. But if I ever have an
article by me I’ll send it to you."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
- Year of the date penciled in
Purchased. 1972
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1914 Apr. 25 -
Merwin, Samuel, 1874-1936, author. Forest Hills
Gardens, Long Island, "The sheltered life, with its corollary of so
called right living, permits no true demonstration of character. That
fine quality is found in the open, where men (and women) breast the
rough tide of life, and blunder, and struggle, and suffer."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 16.5cm.
Removed from Merwin’s
The Trufflers
Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1916
(Lilly PS2389.M4 T86).
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[19]14 May 23 -
Hamilton, Cosmo, 1879-1942, novelist, playwright.
Whiteleaf, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, [England]. To W[illiam]
M[orris] Colles. Asks to be informed when Colles receives a manuscript,
and that Colles hold the manuscript until the two meet.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 17.8cm.
- In ink on folded printed stationary
Removed from Hamilton,
Impertinent
Reflections
, London, Stanley Paul, [1912] (Lilly PR 6015 .A435 I34). 1981
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1914 July 11 -
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937, bibliographer. To
[Paul] Lemperly. Thanks him for sending "on this little Bibliophile
book."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Algernon Charles Swinburne’s
Aeolus … London, [Printed for Thomas J. Wise], 1914 (Lilly PR5506 .A3). 1961
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1914 Aug. 25 -
Seaman, Sir Owen, 1861-1936, editor, humorist.
Beefsteak Club, 9, Green Street, Leicester Square, [London], W.C. To
[John] Lane. Gives permission to use either "Pro Patria" or "Dies Irae".
Chatto and Windus will use the former for the same excellent project.
"Thank you for the [William] Watson lines which I shall use. His address
will serve for the payment of his honorarium."
Autograph Letter Signed 3pp. 17.8cm.
Purchased. 1980
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1914 Sept. 13 -
Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing, 1855-1934, dramatist.
Stillands, Chiddingfold, Godalming, [England]. To "My dear Sir". Sends
slightly amended message for the one sent a few days ago.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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[19]14 Oct. 2 -
Crowley, Aliester, 1875-1947, author. 33, Avenue
Studios, South Kensington, S.W. To Holbrook Jackson, T. P’s Weekly, 29,
Henrietta St. W.C. "I have been in bed for the last 3 weeks with what we
hope is only phelibitis…Won’t you come down and see me?"
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
- Enclosure mentioned in letter not present
Removed from Crowley,
777 vel prolegomena
symbolica
…London, Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1909 (Lilly PR6005 .R88S48). 1975
[1914 Nov. 17] -
Dobell, Bertram, 1842-1914, bookseller, author.
London. To [Thomas Bird Mosher]. Burn’s
The jolly
beggars
; Richard Le Gallienne; his books.
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 15cm.
Removed from
Poems ascribed to Robert Burns, the
Ayrshire bard
…Glasgow, 1801.
(Lilly PR4300 .G6 1801). 1963
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1915 Feb. 12 -
Thomas, Edward, 1878-1917, essayist, poet. Steep,
[Peterfield, England]. To Eleanor [Farjeon]. Sends "this Song Book" for
her birthday. Discusses his writing.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 24.5cm.
Removed from A.H. Bullen,
Lyrics from the
song-books of the Elizabethan age
. London: Sidgwick &
Jackson, 1913 (Lilly PR1207 .L99). 1991
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[1915] May 4 -
Watson, Sir William, 1958-1935, poet. Bowfell View,
Ambelside. To "my dear Collins". "I will post the Ruskin thing tomorrow
– thank you for the typed copy."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Removed from Watson,
The Poems of William
Watson
…London & New York, John Land, 1905 (Lilly PR750 .A2 1905 copy 2). 1974
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1915 July 23 -
Zangwill, Israel, 1864-1926, novelist. Far End,
East Preston, Sussex, [England]. To Mr. Goldstein. Mentions
The War God.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 17cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1915 Aug. 22 -
Hastings, Basil Macdonald, 1881-1929, playwright. 7
Pickwick Rd., Dubrick Village, London, S.E. To "Dear John". Presents the
book to John which may amuse him "for an hour or so". Notes that the
play is a success. "One of my brothers is on the casualty list this
morning – wounded. What a world!"
Autograph Note Signed 1p. 18cm.
Inscribed on Eden Phillpotts and Basil Macdonald Hastings,
The Angel in the house…New York and London,
Samuel French, Ltd., 1915 (Lilly PR5177
.A48). 1974
1915 Oct. 17 -
De Morgan, William Frend, 1839-1917, novelist. 127
Chruch Street, Chelsea, S.W., [London, England]. To Mrs. [Mary] Sturge
Gretton. Deals with the pagination of
Joseph
Vance
and
Somehow Good.
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 18cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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1916 Mar. 8 -
Masefield, John, 1878-1967, poet. New York. To
Professor Schinze. Sending him book.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 17cm.
Mounted following front flyleaf of Masefield’s
Sonnets…New York, Macmillan, 1916 (Lilly PR6025 .A77S6). 1941
[19]16 Mar. 5 -
Ollivant, Alfred, 1874-1927, novelist. Yonder
Lodge, Penn, Buck. To Mr. Unwin. "I should have written before, but..."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 22.5cm.
Removed from Ollivant's,
The Royal Road,
London, Methuen, [1912] (Lilly PR6029.L6 R88
1912). 1981
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1916 June 29 -
Thomas, Philip Edward, 1878-1917, essayist, poet.
Steep, Peterfield, [England]. To [Thomas] Seccombe. "Would you give me a
moral certificate on this form? If so I should be most grateful…I am
rather tried of the work here…So I hope to get on anti-aircraft…"
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Mounted in Thomas,
Poems, London, Selwyn
& Blount, 1917 (Lilly PR6039 .H55A17
1917). 1974
[19]16 Sept. 20 -
Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958, poet. Enhurst,
Rottingdean, Sussex. To [Clement King] Shorter. Praises the poetry of
Shorter’s wife, Dora (Sigerson) Shorter. Is pleased that Shorter wishes
to publish his articles on the Navy, but suggests he consider his "Songs
of the Trawlers" instead.
Autograph Letter Signed [4]p. 20cm.
Hinged in after title page of Noyes,
Songs of the
Trawlers
. London: C. Shorter, 1916. (Lilly PR6027 .O8 S69 copy 2) 1992
1916 Sept. 23 -
Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844-1930, poet.
Chilswell, Oxford. To [William Ralph Inge]. Has been reading the
"Bampton lectures on mysticism," and is distressed not to have seen
aversion of a passage quoted in a recent work of his own. He sends "a
book containing some aberrations of my own…"
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 18cm.
Removed from
Poems written in the year MCMXIII by
Robert Bridges, poet laureate
, Chelsea: Ashendene Press,
1914. (Lilly PR4161 .B6A17 1914). 1976
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[19]16 Sept. -
Gregory, Isabella Augusta (Persse), lady, 1852-1932, poet,
dramatist. Coole Park, Cort, Co. Galway. To John Quinn,
Esq., 58 Central Park West, New York, USA. "here is my fairy play – you
may pass it on to little Mary if you like."
Autograph Card Signed 9cm.
Removed from Gregory,
The Golden Apple,
London, John Murray, 1916 (Lilly PZ10.5
.G822G62). 1974
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[19]16 Oct. 9 -
Noyes, Alfred, 1880-1958, poet. 26 Clivedon Place,
Sloane Square, London, S.W. To Clement [King] Shorter. Encloses two
poems from his
Songs of the Trawlers to
be published by Shorter. The remaining poems will appear in the
Daily Chronicle so that he will not send
those. Has altered the names of the guns in poem "Kilmeny" by order of
the censor, but thinks it can be restored to the original version for
private printing.
Autograph Letter Signed [3]p. 19cm.
Hinged in after title page of Noyes,
Songs of the
Trawlers
. London: C. Shorter, 1916. (Lilly PR6027 .O8 S69 copy 2) 1992
[1916] Oct. 21 -
Sassoon, Siegfried Lorraine, 1886-1967, poet.
Weirleigh. To Eddie [Marsh]. "Thanks for the notes & cheque. What
enormous sums I earn by my too prolific pen!...I am sending you…my last
futile pamphlet. The contents are my mother’s favorites. But in the end
I only had eleven done…"
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 18cm.
Removed from Sassoon,
Morning-glory.
London, Chiswick Press, 1916 (Lilly PR6037
.A86M86). 1974
1916 Dec. 14 -
Russell, George William, 1867-1935, poet. Irish
homestead, Dublin. To [Clement King] Shorter. "Yes you can use the poem
as you suggest….I am so sorry to hear Mrs. Shorter has been ill….I am
glad for the copy of her poems you sent."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Removed from Russell’s
Salutation…London,
Privately printed, 1917 (Lilly PR6035 .U7S18
copy 2). 1965
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Bound
1916 -
Moore, George, 1852-1933, novelist.
"Lewis Seymour and some women."
Corrected proof sheets.
[189] leaves. 23cm.
- Bound in half olive levant morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe;
in half olive morocco slip case
- Proof sheets printed by Billing and Sons Ltd., London Printing
Works, Guildford, Sept. 7-Oct. 6, 1916
- Heavily corrected by pen, pencil and blue carbon
typescript
- Published in London, William Heinemann, 1917 (Lilly PR5042 .L67 1917)
- Text is a rewriting of
A Modern
Lover
, London, 1883
- Bound in is a letter from George Moore, 121 Ebury Street,
London, S.W., to "Dear Sir", 1917
(misdated 1916), Jan. 15, Typed Letter Signed, [1]
leaf. 23 cm., confirming the statement that he had corrected the
proofs himself with few exceptions.
From the library of Jerome Kern, sold at the Anderson Galleries, Jan.
21-24 (Lilly Z977 .K38 v. 2)
Gift. From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1956
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Box 6
[1916] -
Moore, George, 1852-1933, novelist. 121 Ebury
Street, [London], S.W. To [T.] Werner Laurie. Sunday. "I am glad to hear
from you that the sale of the fine edition will not be effected by the
fact that it will be of the same size and appearance as the ordinary
edition."
Autograph Letter Signed [1] leaf. 23cm.
Removed from Moore,
The Brook Kerith,
Edinburgh, T. Werner Laurie, 1916 (Lilly
PR5042 .B87 1916a) 1956
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
[1917] [Jan?] 24 -
Hewlett, Maurice Henry, 1861-1923, author. Elm Tree
Farm, West Wittering, Chichester, [England]. To [Austin] Dobson. …"a
gracious reference to me in your jolly book has moved me to have one of
mine sent to you. I have asked [Sydney] Pawling to post you
The Song of the Plow."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 18cm.
- Watermark, five point crown with Papyrus Regia, lettered
below. From Austin Dobson Library.
Removed from Hewlett,
The Song of the
Plow
, London, Heinemann, 1916. (Lilly
PR4787 .S5 copy 2) 1976.
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1917 Jan. 29 -
Russell, George William, 1867-1935, poet. Dublin.
To [Clement King] Shorter. Thanks him for copies of
Salutation.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 22cm.
Removed from Russell’s
Salutation…London,
Privately printed, 1917 (Lilly PR6035 .U7S18
copy 2). 1965
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1917 Feb. 22 -
Oxford and Asquith, Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st earl of,
1852-1928, statesman. Forbes House, Halkin Street, S.W.
To [Clement King] Shorter. "I return the enclosed with one or two slight
corrections which seem right."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Oxford and Asquith,
The rubáiyát of
Omar Khayyám
. [London: Printed by Clement Shorter, Feb. 19, 1917] (Lilly PK6524 .A8). 1986
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1917 Mar. 2 -
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929, poet. New Canaan,
Conn[ecticut]. To Mr. Perkins. "If you will send the books here…I will
be glad to write in them for you."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 22cm.
Removed from Bliss Carman,
Ode on the Coronation
of King Edward
. Boston, L.C. Page and Company, 1902 (Lilly PR4441 .O4). 1965
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1917 Apr. 29 -
Padmore, E.S. London, S.W. "Dear Sir: Enclosed
please find copy of my play. Yours truly E.S. Padmore"
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Removed from E.S. Padmore,
The Old Curiosity Shop
of Charles Dickens, dramatized as an ironical morality
.
London, printed for private circulation only by J.Davy & Sons, 1917 (Lilly PR4566.A37 P). 1965
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[1917] Aug. 16 -
Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939, poet. c/o Madame
Gonne, Colleville s. mer, par Vierville s. mer. France. To Russell.
Refers him to "Mrs. Ezra Pound…, she is my musical agent, she decides on
merit of music…".
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 27.3cm.
- In brown ink on lined paper
- Year supplied by dealer from whom acquired
Purchase. 1993
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1918 Apr. -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. Notes re the
format and proofs of The Roll Call.
Autograph Note Signed 6p. 14cm.
Purchased. 1970
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1918 May 14 -
Morgan, Charles Langbridge, 1894-1958, novelist.
Woodhurst, Kenley, Surrey. To Annious Syndicate. "I have nothing quite
ready to send you at the moment….I hope to get my leave extended on
medical grounds."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 15cm.
Removed from Morgan’s
The Gunroom. London,
A. & C. Black, Ltd., 1919. (Lilly PR6025
.O67G9).
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly Jr., Indianapolis, Indiana. 1967
1918 May 31 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist,
novelist. Adelphi Terrace House, Strand W.C. To [Gertrude
Eleanor] Jennings. "I am glad you sent me the enclosed….I think it is a
beautiful little piece of work and hope to see it flourishing somewhere
under good conditions."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
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[1918] Sept. 6 -
Moore, George, 1852-1933, novelist. 121 Ebury
Street, [London, England]. To Mr. Greene. Mentions
Brook Kerith and A Story teller’s holiday.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 20cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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[1918] -
Bagnold, Enid, 1889-1981, playwright. North End
House, Rottinggdean, Sussex
"The Sailing
Ships."
Autograph Poem Signed 1p. 23cm.
1918 -
Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937, poet, dramatist.
Loyalties, a Book of Poems…with designs
by Paul Nash. London, C[yril] W[illiam] Beaumont, 1918.
Autograph & Printed Document Signed [29] leaves. 21cm.
- Holograph, printed poems, and corrected proofs for volume
published by Beaumont Press, London, 1918 (Lilly PR6007 .R5L7)
- Not complete for each poem or illustration in the published
work
- Trial: four line poem in ink (only poem in holograph in this
compilation)
Purchased. 1977
Bound
1919 Mar. 26 -
Hastings, Basil MacDonald, 1881-1928, playwright.
"Victory. A Play in Three Acts."
Found
on the Novel of that name by Joseph Conrad.
Typed Document [139]pp. 25.6cm.
- Bound in red buckram
- In red and black type
- Includes lighting and property plots, curtain calls, and three
photographs of sets
- Cast of characters, with Marie Löhr in lead role as Lena, has
added names in pencil
- Occasional corrections in pen and pencil
- Another typescript of play located in New York Public Library:
see Mansell, v. 234, p. 288
- Printed program mounted on page [iv]: "’
"Victory"
’ produced by Marie
Löhr, Wednesday March 26th,
1919" at the Globe Theatre
- Bookplate of Anthony [Leyland] Prinsep, lessee of the Globe
Theatre, London
Purchased. 1983
Box 6
1919 Apr.
21-29 -
Sanderson, Edward Lancelot, 1872-1939, headmaster.
Through the Grazalema-Ronda Sierra. A nine days’ diary.
Typed Document 91p. 25.5cm.
- Bound in tan buckram
- Illustrated with snapshots and postcards throughout
- Autograph Letter Signed from Joseph Conrad to Sanderson, Sept. 19, 1919, on verso front
free end paper
Purchased. 1993
1919 Sept. 19 -
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, novelist. Spring Grove.
Wye. To [Edward Lancelot] Sanderson. Enjoyed reading the journal. "You
certainly have an eye for the picturesque…and a fine feeling for the
past."
Autograph Letter Signed [3]p. 17.5cm.
- Attached to verso of front end paper of Sanderson’s
Through the Grazalema-ronda Sierra. A nine days’
diary, 1919, Apr. 21-29, English literature
mss.
Purchase. 1993
1919 Dec. -
Belasco, David, 1853-1931, dramatist. To Mrs.
[Jacquin] Campbell (Mrs. Heyworth Campbell). "I have autographed the
book you sent and I am taking the liberty of returning with it William
Winters book about my ‘past’".
Autograph Note Signed 1p. 8cm.
- Bears the monogram of David Belasco
- Date penciled in and taken from inscription on book
Removed from Belasco,
The theatre through its
stage door
. New York and London, Harper, 1919 (Lilly PS1085 .B23T3) which bears the bookplate of
Heyworth and Jacquin Campbell. 1975
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1920 Jan. 7 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. 12B George
Street, Hanover Square W. 1., [London, England]. To Herbert M. Prentice.
Deals with royalties for plays.
Typed Letter Signed 2 p. 23 cm.
Purchased. 1965
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1920 Jan. 9 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. 12B George
Street, Hanover Square W. 1. [London, England]. To H[erbert] M.
Prentice. Cites conditions for the performance of his plays.
Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.
Purchased. 1965
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1920 Jan. 20 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. 12B George
Street, Hanover Square, W. 1., [London, England]. To Herbert M.
Prentice. Society of Authors will not give its consent for amateur
performances as offered by Bennett.
Typed Letter Signed 1 p. 23 cm.
Purchased. 1965
View item(s)
1920 Jan. 22 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. 12B George
Street, Hanover Square, W. 1., [London, England]. To H[erbert M.]
Prentice. "I think you have to remember that the basis of dramatic
authorship, like the basis of nearly everything else, is
economic."
Typed Letter Signed 2 p. 23 cm.
Purchased. 1965
View item(s)
Oversize
1920 Jan. 27 -
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933, novelist. Grove Lodge,
Hempstead, London, N W 3, [England]. To "My dear Mr. Clark." Will be
unable "to fall in with the proposal."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 21cm.
- Framed with signed photography of John Galsworthy
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
Box 6
1920 Jan. 30 -
Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959, author. c/o Mr. W.B.
Leakins, Times Building, New York. To [Herbert Prentice?]. Sympathizes
with this correspondent over the difficulty of attracting authors of
"good plays" to his theater.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 21cm.
Purchased. 1969
1920 Apr. 5 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist,
novelist. Adelphi Terrace House, Strand W.C. 2. To
[Gertrude Eleanor] Jennings. "Thank you for your letter. And my very
hearty congratulations on your big success in which I
rejoice."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
View item(s)
1920 Aug. 31 -
Gregory, Isabella A[ugusta (Persse), lady, 1859-1932, poet,
dramatist. To [Russell, George William]. Comments on
Visions and beliefs in the West of Ireland,
collected and arranged by Lady Gregory…First series
. New
York, G.P. Putnam’s sons, 1920.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 17cm.
Mounted on front flyleaf of above book. (Lilly GR147 .G8) 1964
[19]20 Dec. 1 -
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957, author, painter. To
[Geoffrey] Grigson. Comments on notes taken by Edith Sitwell.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20cm.
Removed from Edith Sitwell’s Aspects of modern poetry. London, [1934]. (Lilly Pr603 .S5). 1963
1920 -
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, novelist. Inscription to
H. Goodburn. "A primary school-book. Just to show how democracy is being
looked after in this year of grace."
Autograph Document Signed 15cm.
On front flyleaf of Conrad,
Youth; and Gaspar
Ruiz
. New York: E.P. Dutton; London: J.M. Dent, [1920]. (Lilly PR6005 .O4 Y8 1920a) 1986
[1920] -
Mackenzie, Sir Compton, 1883-1972, author. Essay
about Italy "Sirene".
Typed Document 11p. 26cm.
- With holograph corrections and insertions.
Purchased. 1973
Box 7
1921 Jan. 7 -
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937, bibliographer. W.A.
Smith & Co., Albion Works….London, S.E. To Messrs. Jones &
Evans, Ltd., Queen Street, E.C. "I cannot supply you with any of the
private Conrad pamphlets,…the whole of them were distributed at the time
they were printed…."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25.3cm.
Gift. 1989
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1921 Jan. 27 -
Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945, poet. Island Cottage,
Wittersham, Kent. To Mr. Thompson. Refers to an article he has just
completed.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Gift. 1971
View item(s)
1921 Feb. 18 -
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960, novelist, poet.
Torquay, [England]. To Henry C. Shelley, Fellowship of Freedom &
Reform, Whitehall House, 29 Charing Cross, London, S.W.1. Appreciates
his "kind solicitations" and says "There is an electric quality in the
good will of friends that may be more valuable than we
know!"
Autograph Card Signed 11cm.
Transferred from the Book Department. 1974
1921 Feb. 21 -
Dent, Joseph Mallaby, 1849-1926, publisher. Aldine
House, Covent Garden, London, W.C.2. To T[homas] J[ames] Wise, Esq., 25,
West Heath Drive, N.W.3. Is sending a copy of Conrad’s new volume
printed on "larger paper before the ordinary edition, and it is
therefore really a first edition."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25.2cm.
Removed from Joseph Conrad,
Notes on Life and
Letters
, London & Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1921 (Lilly PR6005 .L4N9). 1983
View item(s)
1921 Mar. 15 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. 12B George
Street, Hanover Square W. 1., [London, England]. To Herbert M. Prentice.
If he wished to avoid the terms of amateur performances he should become
professional.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
Purchased. 1965
View item(s)
1921 Mar. 16 -
Chambers, Charles Edward Stuart, 1859-1936, author.
339 High Street, Edinburgh, [Scotland]. To Mr. Roberts. Requests that
Roberts place a valuation on "several pictures by John Clark of
Westminister known as ‘Waterloo Clark’" offered to him by A.C. Clark of
London. He himself is a grandnephew of William Chambers who had married
a Miss Clark.
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 21cm.
- Letterhead: "Chamber’s Journal"
Acquired in Oct. 1983 and transferred from
Lilly Library Book Department, 1985.
View item(s)
1921 Mar. 18 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. 12B George
Street, Hanover Square W. 1., [London, England]. To H[erbert] M.
Prentice. Willing to have
"The Great
Adventure"
performed on a 5 per cent basis.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
Purchased. 1965
View item(s)
1921 May 11 -
Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945, poet. 13 (3) Queen’s
Gardens, Hyde Park, W. [London, England]. To "Dear Mr. Thompson." At end
of week will leave Paris therefore sends "these casual
notes."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
View item(s)
1921 June 5 -
Severs, George. To Mr. Drummond. Regarding hymn
books and Rev. John Wesley.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 25.5cm.
Removed from John Wesley,
Hymns and sacred
poems
. London, 1756 (Lilly
PR3763.W573 H8 1756) 1981
View item(s)
1921 Sept. 17 -
Abbott, Claude Colleer, 1889-1971, poet, author.
Broomfield, Chelmsford, Essex, [England]. To [Edward Harry William]
Meyerstein. Sends his latest book. Will be leaving Cambridge to teach at
Aberdeen University in October.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 17.8cm.
Removed from Abbott,
Poems. Oxford: Basil
Blackwell, 1921 (Lilly AAD 9974) 1990
1921 Sept. 29 -
Gregory, Isabella Augusta (Persse), lady, 1859-1932, poet,
dramatist. To [Karel] Musek. "We had rather a hard time
here last winter & spring, the curfew regulations and other military
measures did away with our audiences – But we re-open next
week."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 18cm.
- Letter head of Abbey Theatre, Dublin
- Watermark: Swift Brook, John McDonnel & Co.
Removed from Gregory,
Irish Folk-History
plays
. London and New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912 (Lilly PR4728 .G5I68), vol. 2. 1975
View item(s)
1921 Oct. 19 -
Nichols, N. H., bookseller. 54 St. Johns Road,
London, N. 1. To "Dear Sir." Refers to George Gordon Noël Byron, 6th
baron Byron,
Poems on his domestic
circumstances
, 15th edition. "This is an exceedingly by
scarce book." Supplies information on various editions.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 27cm.
Removed from George Gordon Noël Byron, 6th baron Byron,
Poems on his domestic circumstances… 15th
ed. London, W. Hone, 1816. (Lilly PR4372
.P7441 1816e). 1966
1922 Feb. 11 -
Yeats, Elizabeth Corbet, 1868-1940, publisher.
Cuala Industries, Ltd., Churchtown, Dundrum, Co., Dublin. To Mrs.
Kempster. "In Dublin all business is practically at a stand still;"
death of father.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 13-20cm.
Purchased. 1965
View item(s)
1922 Mar. 19 - Autographed
photograph of James Joyce, taken by Man Ray.
Photograph 9x14 cm.
- On verso of photograph "property of Miss K[ate] Buss. 58 rue
Jacob Hotel de Danube, Paris please return to her at above
address."
Removed from
Ulysses by James Joyce.
Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922. (Lilly
PR6019 .O9U4 1922). 1970
View item(s)
1922 Mar. 27 -
Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1895-1977, novelist.
40, Bradford Street, Bolton, [England]. To [Albert] Curtis Brown. "I am
awfully interested in the new novel I am writing…and I rather think [it]
ought to be all right."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 17cm.
Purchased. 1974
1922 Apr. 3 -
Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1895-1977, novelist.
40, Bradford St[reet], Bolton, [England]. To [Albert] Curtis Brown. "I
return the contract duly initialed. What’s going to happen about
Liveright?".
Autograph Letter Signed 1 leaf. 15cm.
Purchased. 1974
1922 Apr. 4 -
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953, author. Reform Club,
S.W. To [Martyn] Green. Refers to Green’s acting the night before.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1967
1922 Apr. 5 -
Newbolt, Sir Henry John, 1862-1938, poet. The
Anthenaeum, Pall Mall, S.W. 1. To "My dear Mrs. Howe". "I almost wish
you had not asked me! The pleasure of my last visit was so complete and
if I had been free I should have come so eagerly."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
View item(s)
1922 June 3 -
Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936, writer. Hotel
Margaret, Brooklyn, N.Y. To Mr. Kennerley. "I would be delighted to lend
you my copy of
The Feasts of Autolycus -
but, unfortunately, it is packed and stored in London with our other
belongings."
Autograph Letter Signed 2 leaves. 16.5cm.
Removed from Pennell,
The feasts of
Autolycus
, London, J.Lane; New York, Merriam Co., 1896 (Lilly TX633.P413 F28). 1980
View item(s)
1922 June 20 -
Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974, poet.
Stansfield nr Clare, Suffolk, [England]. To [Edward Neville da Costa]
Andrade. "God knows how long I have had these maps of yours, originally
to be returned ‘tomorrow’ I fear—well here they are—Goodbye to
Yeeps."
Autograph Letter Signed 2 leaves. 22cm.
Removed from Blunden,
Old Homes, Clare,
[England], W.T. Ward, 1922 (Lilly PR6003
.L804), the author’s presentation copy to E[dward] N[eville] da C[osta]
Andrade. 1973
1922 Sept. 18 -
Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1895-1977, novelist.
40 Bradford Street, Bolton. To [Richard] Cobden-Sanderson. "I only heard
of your Father’s death last Saturday….I can well imagine your desolating
sense of loss…Chekov! Chekov! There are moments when I wish he had never
been born."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1973
1922 Sept. 27 -
Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881-1965, author. 137 Fellows
R[oad], N.W.3. To "Dear Mr. Bromehead." "I am the least geological
person in the world…and to be linked up with anything that looks so
factful as your blue pamphlet, tilts my chin an inch higher in the
air."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 23cm.
Purchased with books. 1973
[1922] Nov. 11 -
Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844-1930, poet.
Chilswell, Oxford. To Lord Russell. Thanks him for contribution to the
S.P.E.
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 18cm.
Gift. 1961
View item(s)
1922 Dec. 14 -
Baring, Maurice, 1874-1945, author. [London,
England]. To [Henry Arthur] Jones. Thanks him for sending him his new
play. "It seems…impossible that it should not be produced…Michael
must be done again."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 23cm.
Source unknown. 1949
View item(s)
[1923] Feb. 1 -
Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844-1930, poet.
Chilswell, Oxford. To Lord Russell. Thanks him for check for S.P.E.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Gift. 1961
View item(s)
1923 May 16 -
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950, playwright. 10
Adelphi Terrace, W.C. 2, Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, Herts. To Sir James
Marchant. "A preface by me is a standard article….The result is that my
hands are tied as to casual introductions and good-natured lifts to
causes with which I sympathize. You must therefore try…someone else who
has not specialized in prefaces."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1971
1923 Oct. 11 -
Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th baron,
1878-1957, dramatist. 66, Cadogan Square, S.W.1. To "Dear
Mr. Prentice." Expresses thanks for photograph and check. "The play
looks as if it has been done in quite the right spirit."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
- The letter is in another hand but signed by Dunsany.
Purchased. 1965
1923 Nov. 27 -
Crocket, J.H., director, John Lane The Bodley Head
limited. London. To Edgar H. Wells & co., New York.
Only two numbers of Blast published.
Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Removed from
Blast: review of the great English
vortex
. (Lilly AP4 .B605 copy 2). 1956
1923 Dec. 18 -
Gregory, Isabella A[ugusta (Persse), lady, 1859-1932, poet,
dramatist. Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway [Ireland]. To
[Karel] Mušek. "…our country is much more tranquil now, although there
is still need of a real reconcilement between our Republican & Free
States…Our Abbey Theatre still keeps going, but we lost a good deal in
the disturbed times…".
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 17cm.
Removed from Gregory,
Irish Folk-History
plays
. London and New York, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1912 (Lilly PR4728 .G5 I68) vol. 2. 1975
View item(s)
1923 -
Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924, novelist. [Inscription]
Signed for Miss Anna Faith Taylor "…for restoring the stick’s
integrity…"
Autograph Document Signed 1p. 19cm.
On half-title page of Conrad,
Victory.
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Page. 1923
(Lilly PR6005 .O4 V6 1923a). 1987
1924 Feb. 7 -
Weaver, Harriet Shaw, 1876-1961, publisher. The
Egoist Press, 2 Robert Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.2. To [Kate] Buss.
Discusses several editions of James Joyce’s
Ulysses.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
- Accompanied by M. Kingdon, secretary, 121 Ebury Street,
London, S.W.1. To "Dear Madam", July
2, 1925. "Mr. George Moore…has never expressed an
opinion upon Mr. James Joyce or upon
'Ulysses.'
" Typed Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
- On verso of front flyleaf is written: "Belonging to Kate
Buss."
Removed from Joyce, James.
Ulysses…Paris,
Shakespeare and co., 1922 (Lilly PR6019 .O9U4
1922). 1951
1924 Feb. 29 -
Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947, author. 12, Melina
Place, [London], N.W.8. To "Dear Sir". "So far as I know, nobody is
going to issue
'Ornaments in Jade'
in
England. Knopf holds the world right…"
Autograph Letter Signed 1 leaf. 23cm.
Purchased. 1974
1924 Aug. 11 -
Read, Sir Herbert Edward, 1893-1968, poet, critic.
35, Beaumont Road, Purley. To [Richard] Cobden-Sanderson. "I enclose a
subscription to the Criterion sent to me through Editor of the Modern
Quarterly…complains bitterly that he hasn’t received his exchange copy
of the July Criterion."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
Purchased. 1973
1924 Oct. 17 -
Machen, Arthur, 1863-1947, author. To Mr. Grubb.
Concerning the publication of Arthur Machen’s
The
shining pyramid
[ed. with and introduction by Vincent
Starrett], Chicago, Covici-McGee, 1923, and
The glorious mystery, ed. by Vincent
Starrett, Chicago, Covici-McGee, 1924.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 26cm.
Removed from Machen’s
The glorious
mystery
. Chicago, Covici-McGee, 1924
(Lilly PS3537 .T18 Z322). 1950
1924 Nov. 15 -
Woolf, Mrs. Virginia (Stephen), 1882-1941, author.
52 Tavistock Square, London W.C.1. To [Donald Clifford] Brace. Refers to
the publication of "The common reader" and "Mrs. Dalloway" by Harcourt,
Brace and company.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 24cm.
- Enclosed with letter of Alfred Harcourt to Crosby Gaige, May 20, 1925.
Both letters removed from corrected page proofs for the British edition
of Virginia Woolf’s
"Mrs. Dalloway"
,
1925.
1966
1924 Dec. 1 -
Matz, Bertram, Waldrom, 1865-1925, editor,
publisher. 29 Woodfield Avenue, Streatham S.W.16. To Mr.
Alexander. Refers to a book published by Harper.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 21cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
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[1924] Dec. 17 -
Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren, 1900-1976, author.
10, Well Road, Hampstead, N.W.3. To [Sir Edward Howard Marsh].
Apologizes for sending him a gift; notes that Peter checked his "efforts
to come to see" him.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
- Date derived from presentation date of book from which letter
was removed
- Signed: Diccon
- Addressed to: Eddie
Removed from Hughes,
The Sister’s
Tragedy
…London, William Heineman Ltd., 1924 (Lilly PR6015 .U35S63). 1981
Bound
[1924] -
O'Flaherty, Liam, 1896-1984, novelist.
The wave.
Autograph Document Signed 7p. 20cm.
- Varies slightly from printed version.
- Published in O’Flaherty,
Spring
sowing
. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd. [1924] (Lilly PR6029 .F5S7 copy
3).
Transferred from Main Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
1967
Box 7
1925 May 20 -
Harcourt, Alfred, 1881-1954, publisher.
Harcourt, Brace, and company, inc., publishers,
383 Madison Avenue, New York. To Roscoe Crosby Gaige, 229 West 42nd
Street, New York, N.Y. "I am sending you herewith a set of finally
corrected proofs of the British edition of Virginia Woolf’s
'Mrs. Dalloway'
".
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 28cm.
- Accompanied by a letter from Virginia Woolf to Donald Clifford
Brace, Nov. 15, 1924.
Both letters removed from corrected page proofs for the British edition
of Virginia Woolf’s
"Mrs. Dalloway"
,
1925.
1966
[1925 Nov. 12] -
Beerbohm, Sir Max, 1872-1956, caricaturist,
essayist. To the Editor of the Times,
"Later Days"
. Refers to a conversation
between William Henry Davies and Beerbohm which took place six years ago
recorded by Davies in
Later Days.
Typed Letter Signed 4p. 28cm.
Purchased. 1969
[1925] -
Lawrence, David Herbert, 1885-1930, novelist.
Accumulated Mail.
Autograph Document Signed 10pp. 28cm.
- In ink with numerous changes.
- Earlier title: Opening One’s Mail
- An essay concerning letters which the writer has received and
comment on a critical article by Edwin Muir in
The Nation for Feb. 11, 1925.
- Published in Lawrence,
The
Borzoi
, A.A. Knopf, New York, 1925 (Lilly A473 .K72 1925) pages 119-28.
Purchased. 1974
View item(s)
[1925] -
Moore, George, 1852-1933, novelist. 121 Ebury
Street, [London, England]. To [Edmund William] Gosse. Sends
congratulations to Gosse who recently had a knighthood conferred upon
him.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Removed from George Moore,
Impressions and
opinions
. London, David Nutt, 1891 (Lilly PR5042 .I34 1891).
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
View item(s)
Bound
[1925] -
Woolf, Mrs. Virginia (Stephen), 1882-1941, author.
Corrected page proofs for the British edition of Mrs.
Dalloway.
Autograph & Printed Document [295] p. 19 cm.
- Corrections in purple ink by the author
- Adaptions in pencil for American edition
- Pages 1-6 unnumbered; 7-224 numbered correctly; 224a &
224b added; 245-293 numbered correctly.
- Page proofs vary slightly from British edition,
Mrs. Dalloway. London, Hogarth
Press, 1925 (Lilly PR6045 .O7M5), and
American edition,
Mrs. Dalloway.
New York, Harcourt, Brace, and company, 1925 (Lilly PR6045 .O7M5 1925).
Purchased. 1966
Box 8
1926 Feb. 16 -
Mackenzie, Sir Compton, 1883-1972, author.
What a Man expects from his wife.
Autograph Document 8p. 27-29cm.
Purchased. 1973
Bound
1926 June 14 -
Coppard, Alfred Edgar, 1878-1957, poet.
"Judith."
Autograph Document Signed 51p. 25.5cm.
- In ink on blue paper
- Dated and initialed, p. 51
- Addition pasted to p. 2 to 34cm.
- Carries corrections and deletions throughout
- Short story, published in
The Field of
Mustard
, London, Jonathan Cape, 1926 (Lilly PR6005 .O55 F44)
- In green cloth case
- From the library of the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., with his
leather book-label inside folding case.
Purchase. 1989
Box 8
1926 June 19 -
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933, novelist. Grove Lodge,
The Grove, Hampstead, London, N.W.3. To Robert Bridges. "It would be a
favour to me if you could seriously consider whether you could serialize
'Our Mr. Dormer'
…&
'The Crime at
Vanderlynden’s'
."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Removed from Ralph Hale Mottram’s
The Crime at
Vanderlynden’s
. London, Chatto and Windus, 1926 (Lilly PR6025 .O79 C92). 1973
1926 July 6 -
Sisam, Kenneth, 1887-1971, editor.
The Clarendon Press, Oxford. To [Thomas Banks
Strong] The Lord Bishop of Oxford. Re: issuing separately a few copies
of Bridges’ Memoir of Henry Bradley, "so that Mrs. Bradley may have it."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25.2cm.
Removed from Robert Bridges,
Henry Bradley: A
memoir
. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1926. (Lilly PR4161 .B6 H46) 1989
1926 Dec. 15 -
Gregory, Isabella Augusta (Persse) lady, 1859-1932, poet,
dramatist. Coole Park, Gort, Co. Galway, [Ireland]. To
Mrs. [Karel] Mušek. "The photograph…is of W. Yeats – (sitting in a
rack)….I hope your visit to America may be successful."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 17cm.
Removed from Gregory,
New comedies. New
York and London, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913
(Lilly PR4728 .G5N5). 1975
1926 Dec. 24 -
Woolf, Mrs. Virginia (Stephen), (Mrs. Leonard Sidney Woolf),
1882-1941, author. Eagles’ Nest, Zennor, St. Ives,
Cornwall, [England]. To [Crosby] Gaige. Regrets that she will be unable
to have tea with the Gaiges.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Virginia (Stephen) Woolf’s
The voyage
out
. London, Duckworth & co., 1915 (Lilly PR6045 .O7V6 1915). 1966
1926 -
Acton, Sir Harold Mario Mitchell, 1904- , author.
This "Ass" belongs to T.E. Driberg [first line].
Autograph Document 1p. 18.5cm.
- Verse inscription of presentation
On front free endpaper of Acton,
An Indian
ass
. London, Duckworth, 1925
(Lilly PR6001 .C7I39). 1985
[1926] -
O’Flaherty, Liam, 1896-1984, author.
"The stolen ass"
.
Autograph Document Signed 12p. 18cm.
- In ink with some pencilled notations.
- Published in O’Flaherty,
The Tent and
Other Stories
, London, Jonathan Cape, [1926] (Lilly PR2029 .F5T3 copy
2).
- In green slipcase.
Purchased. 1975
1927 Jan. 8 -
Wise, Thomas James, 1859-1937, bibliographer. 25,
Heath Drive, Hampstead, N.W.3. To [Robert William] Chapman. States he is
too old to become a serious collector of Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson,
but is grateful to Chapman for the item sent to him.
Autograph Letter Signed [4]p. 18cm.
- Accompanied by holograph notes and clippings, 1926-1936, re:
Papers Written by Dr. Johnson and Dr.
Dodd in 1777
. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1926.
Gift. 1993
1927 Jan. 17 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist.
Books & Persons.
Autograph Document Signed 2p. 23cm.
- The last of three articles published in the Boston
Evening Standard, January 27, 1927.
Letters of Arnold Bennett.
Letters to J.B. Pinker. Edited by
James Hepburn. London, Oxford University Press, 1966. Vol. I, p. 361. (Lilly PR6003
.E6Z55).
Purchased. 1968
1927 Feb. 14 -
Betjeman, John, 1906-1984, poet, author.
Oxford University Dramatic Society. To The Editor,
The People, 49 Wellington Street, London. W.C.2. "Enclosed is a
photograph of the last minute rehearsal of the O.U.D.S. production of
"King Lear"
this week, which we
think may interest your readers."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
- Accompanied by the photograph referred to in the
letter.
Removed from John Betjeman,
Mount Zion,
London, James Press, 1931 (Lilly PR6003 .E87
M92). 1974
1927 Feb. 19 -
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939, author. Autograph.
Autograph Document 1p. 17cm.
- Given to George Nelson at Town Hall Club, New York, Feb. 19, 1927.
Removed from Ford’s
The good
soldier
…London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1915. (Lilly PR6011 .O65G7). 1964
[19]27 Mar. 1 -
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939, author. 14, Dover
Mansions, Canterbury Road, Brixton, London, S.W.9. To Vincent Starrett.
"Thank you for sending me
"The
Mystery"
. I have enjoyed it immensely."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
- Paper watermarked "Charles Martin Extra Strong"
Removed from Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt,
Casanova in Rome, in Venice, in Paris,
Boston, John W. Luce, 1924. (Lilly D285.8
.C32 1924). 1976
1927 Apr. 21 -
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933, novelist. Bury House,
Bury nr Pulborough, Sussex. To James G. Leippert, 117 Downs Street,
Kingston, N.J. "I am glad to accept my nomination to the Societé des
Livres; but I have not received any official communication on the
subject."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20cm.
- Signed (P P A.G.). This is the signature of Mrs. Ada Pearson
(Cooper) Galsworthy, who served as secretary to her husband,
John Galsworthy.
Removed from John Galsworthy’s
The man of
property
. New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906. (Lilly PR6013 .A5M622 1906). 1968
1927 Apr.
27-Sept. 29 -
Lawrence, Thomas Edward, 1888-1935, archaeologist.
338171 AC2 Shaw room 2 ERS RAF Depot Drigh Road, Karachi, India. To
Lieutenant Wood. Comments on his book
The Seven
Pillars of Wisdom
.
Autograph Letter Signed, 2 items, 5p. 21-23cm.
Removed from Lawrence’s
The Seven Pillars of
Wisdom
. New York. George H. Doran Company, 1926 (Lilly PR6023 .A91S4 1926a). 1973
Bound
1927 May. 1 –
July 27 -
Spender, Stephen, 1909- author.
Poems written abroad.
Autograph Document Signed 73p. 18x28cm.
- A large octavo ‘blank-book’, bound in batik paper used by the
poet on a continental trip during the summer of 1927. He and his companion decided to
write a series of poems which when completed, was to be given to
the other.
- The poems in black and blue ink occupy all the rectos and some
of the versos of the blank-book.
- There are a number of prose notes introductory to various of
the poems.
- The author provided the collection with pictorial title page,
incorporating a portrait of a young man (clearly in the throes
of composition) at a quay side table under a sunshade.
Contents:
-
View All (18)
- [1] Sonnet on absence, May 1,
1927, p. 5;
- [2] The Chateau garden, May 8,
1927, p. 7-9;
- [3] Stanzas, May 15, 1927, p.
11-13;
- [4] She holds a rose in her two hands, and to her face, May 18, 1927, p. 15;
- [5] Fragment for a possible romance. A description before the
storm May 19, 1927, p.
17;
- [6] Two sonnets, May 21-22, 1927, p. 19-21;
- [7] The confession of the monk struck blind by lightening,
May
26-28, 1927, p. 23-41;
- [8] Song, June 1, 1927, p.
43;
- [9] To a poet, June 12, 1927,
p. 45;
- [10] The boy who was called "the Nightingale" for his lovely
singing & his hearts, June 13-18, [1927], p. 47-51;
- [11] The original Bluebeard, Gilles de Rais of Brittanny
[sic], June 15-19, [1927], p. 53;
- [12] Written after the fête de dieu at Nantes (June 16) on
June 17th, June 16, [1927], p.
55;
- [13] A sonnet to be beautifully printed at the beginning of
his poems, June 22, [1927], p.
57;
- [14] After Ronsard, June 24,
[1927], p. 59;
- [15] Tail-piece, June 30,
[1927], p. 61;
- [16] The ballad of money, July 14,
[1927], p. 67-69;
- [18] Consolation of dust, July 23,
[1927], p. 71;
- [19] Epitaph on a poet, July 26,
[1927], p. 73.
Purchased. 1968
Box 8
1927 June 19 -
Newbolt, Sir Henry John, 1862-1938, poet.
Netherhampton House, Salisbury. To "My dear Fry." "I got drowned in a
British-American Conference on English & quite lost consciousness of
everything but the struggle to keep afloat."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
1927 July 21 -
Chatto, Thomas, Director of Pickering & Chatto,
1, King Street, St. James’, London, S.W.1. To Harold Murdock, Esq.,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge 38, Mass. USA. "…we have received
this morning, your
Spectator 2 vols…
it is a magnificent copy….The foxing is an
honourable sign of age, in such a publication as this."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 25cm.
Removed from
The Spectator, Nos. 1-555,
1711-, 2 vols. London, Sam Bulkely, 1711
(Lilly PR1356 .S7 1711). 1975
1927 Aug. 2 -
Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958, artist, author. The
Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham Saint Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire. To
Mrs. Ellis Roberts, c/o Mrs. Baker, 8 Woodlands, Combe Martin, North
Devon. "Our plans…are to borrow a few gun cases & drive round the
village on the 11th…shut all doors & windows about noon & then
early on the 12th set out…"
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1971
1927 Aug. 12 -
Ford, Ford Madox, 1873-1939, novelist.
Joseph Conrad.
Autograph Document Signed 5p. 25cm.
- In French
- In pencil
- May have been prepared for rights assigned to Albert and
Charles Boni, 1927. See David Dow
Harvey,
Ford Madox
Ford
…Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1962, p. 64 (Lilly PR6011 .O65Z4).
Accompanied by variations from Ford’s
Joseph Conrad…London, Duckworth & Co. [1924], appendix, pp. 251-256 (Lilly
PR6005 .O4Z587).
Purchased. 1966
1927 Sept. 12 -
Jones, Henry Arthur, 1851-1929, dramatist. 19
Kidderpore Avenue, Hampstead, N.W. 3, [England]. To B[enjamin] W[illiam]
Findon. "I was much touched and gratified by your paper in the Play
Pictorial. I think your contention is true, that we did know how to
construct a play – to make it a living organism."
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 14cm.
Purchased. 1974
[19]27 Oct. 6 -
Williamson, Henry, 1897-1977, author. Georgeham,
North Devon. To the editor, Daily express, [London]. Advice to a young
writer.
Autograph Postcard Signed 1p. 9cm.
Purchased. 1960
1927 Oct. 28 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. To [Wilfred
Hugh] Chesson. "I have found a purchaser for your
'Narcissus'
at 300£….I am playing a
complicated game with the two copies."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
- On verso of letter are notes on Joseph Conrad.
Purchased. 1970
1927 Nov. 4 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. 19 Bond Place,
Chelsea, S.W. 3. To [Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "I’m glad you appreciate
Thérèse Philosophe. It’s a
masterpiece of genre of which the modern world has lost the
art."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1970
1927 Nov. 23 -
De La Mare, Richard Herbert Ingpen, 1901-1986,
publisher. Faber and Gwyer Ltd. 24 Russell Square,
London, W.C. 1, [England]. To John Hart. Sent him two books and the
specimen page for Forrest Reid’s book.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Removed from Walter John De La Mare,
Seaton’s
aunt
…London, Faber and Gwyer Ltd. [1927]. (Lilly PR6007 .E3S37). 1965
1927 Dec. 25 -
Maugham, William Somerset, 1874-1964, novelist. The
Letter: Messmore Kendall presents Katharine Cornell in
"The Letter"
by W. Somerset Maugham,
staged by Guthrie McClintic.
Typed Document [127] leaves. 28cm.
- This manuscript of the play as given in Toronto and New York
City theaters in September, 1927,
arranged and typed by Arthur J. Wood, stage manager and
presented to Messmore Kendall on Dec.
25, 1927.
- Photograph of Katharine Cornell with presentation signature to
Messmore Kendall below placed on leaf [2].
- Contents include cast of characters, settings, text, and
Appendix with costumes, properties, lightings and effects,
sketch of settings, photographs of settings, suggestions for
music, labor.
- Endpapers in black with dark blue suede covers.
- Title in gold lettering.
Purchased. 1970
1927 -
Mackenzie, Sir Compton, 1883-1972, author.
Must Poets Make Money?
Autograph Document 9p. 26cm.
- Accompanied by two letters: W. Adcock to Compton Mackenzie,
May 5, and June 9, 1927. Typed Letter Signed
2p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1973
1928 Jan. 5 -
Curle, Richard, 1883-1968, author. 4 Gardnor
Mansions, Church Row, Hampstead, N.W. To [Sylvia Leonora (Brett) Brook,
lady, rani of Sarawak]. Curle has resigned from the
Daily Mail and is planning a trip to San
Francisco, Singapore, Australia, and the South Sea Islands. "When will
Bertram be again in Sarawak?...I’m [sic] nearly finished a book of my
reminiscences of Conrad & I have also edited a volume of 150
selected letters written to me. With these 2 books & my novel &
a volume of
'Blunt'
essays this year
will be a prolific one."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 25cm.
- Letter addressed to "My dear Ranee"
- Curle wrote a column for the
Daily
Mail
under the pseudonym of John Blunt
Purchased. 1972
1928 May 21 -
Brown, Albert Curtis, 1866-1945, pres., international
publishing bureau. London, [Eng.] To Crosby Gaige,
[London, Eng.] Enclosing letter from Kenneth Grahame.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
- Accompanied by enclosure: Grahame, Kenneth, Pangnourne, Berks.
To Curtis Brown, May 19, 1928.
"Shall continue to carry" his letter. Typed Letter Signed 1p.
23cm.
Removed from Grahame’s
The headswoman…New
York and London, The Bodley Head, 1898 (
Lilly PR4726 .H3). 1960
1928 June 27 -
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931, novelist. Review of
Eden Philpotts’
Goodwill.
Autograph Document Signed 2p. 23cm.
Purchased. 1969
1928 Sept. 10 -
Williams, Sideny Herbert, bibliographer. 32 Warrior
Square, St. Leonards-On-Sea. To M[aurice] Buxton Forman, Esq., 1100
Pretoria Street, Pretoria, South Africa. "I am not disturbed by the
cutting from Dobell’s catalogue describing "Two Worlds"…but I think I
may claim to know something of L[ewis] C[arroll]…"
Autograph Letter Signed 4pp. 18cm.
- Enclosed is a clipping from Dobell’s Catalogue No. 352, July, 1928, 77 Charing Cross Road,
London, which gives notice of a literary quarterly entitled
Two Worlds.
- Accompanied by cover.
Removed from Sidney Herbert Williams,
A
Bibliography of Writings of Lewis Carroll
, London, Bookman’s
Journal, 1924. (Lilly PR4612 .A1W58) 1970
1928 Oct. 14 -
Douglas, Norman, 1868-1956, author. c/o Thomas
Cook, Via Tornabuoni, Florence. To [John Nicolas] Mavro[gordato], 11
Redington Road, Hampstead, London, S.W. Sending English edition of
In the beginning and has just
"finished the limericks."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 28cm.
- Accompanied by cover and wrapper.
Removed from Douglas’
In the beginning,
London: Chatto and Windus, 1928. (Lilly
PR6007 .O88I33) 1976
[19]28 Dec. 2 -
Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894- , professor. 89A Lexham
Gardens, Kensington, W.8. To [Charles Archibald] Stonehill. "If you
would be so good as to lay aside my books I shall call to fetch them on
Wednesday."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 16cm.
Removed from
The Works of Cyril Tourneur
edited by Allardyce Nicoll, London, Fanfrolico Press, 1929 (Lilly PR3170 .A5N645). 1977
1928 Dec. 13 -
Williamson, Henry, 1897-1977, author. Georgeham,
North Devon. To G.H. Grubb, Putnam’s, [London]. An article of his.
Autograph Postcard Signed 1p. 9cm.
Purchased. 1960
[1928] -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. 19 Pond Place,
Chelsea, S.W. 3. To [Wilfred Hugh] Chesson. "I am selling…my collection
of Conrad…Copyright edition of
'The
Nigger'
….I disposed of my copy first--& now the
'Chesson'
copy will be put up for
auction."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1970
1929 Apr. 29 -
Forester, Cecil Scott, 1899-1966, author.
Lauenberg, Germany. To G. H. Grubb, Messrs. G. Putnam’s Sons, London,
England. Trip; encloses questionnaire filled in…
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 17cm.
- Accompanied by cover
- Enclosure lacking
Removed from Forester’s
The voyage of the Annie
Marble
…London, John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd., [1929]. (Lilly PR6011 .O72V5). 1964
1929 May 11 -
Mottram, Ralph Hale, 1883-1971, novelist. Poplar
Avenue, Eaton, Norwich. To P[ercival] F. Hinton, 16 Richmond Rd.,
Handsworth, Birmingham. "Thank you for your kind words about The
Boroughmonger & also about my War books. I hope you may be justified
in your faith."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Mottram’s
The Spanish Farm.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1924 (Lilly
PR6025 .O79 S73). 1973
1929 May 25 -
Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950, playwright.
Statement [handed] to Mr. Ivan Lupis-Vukic, Split, Yugoslavia.
Autograph Document Signed 6p. 25cm.
- Accompanied by Photograph of Bernard Shaw, Zivko Vekaric, and
Ivan Lupis-Vukic, May 28,
1929.
- Published in translation as "Povodom Smrti G. B. Shawa," in
Republika, (Zagreb). VI: 823,
Nov.-Dec.
1950; published in English as "A statement written by
Mr. G. Bernard Shaw in Split, Jugoslavia in May, 1929," in
The Shaw Bulletin, II, no. 4, p.
3-4, Jan. 1958. Included also is a
letter of Dan H. Laurence to David A. Randall, Oct. 8, 1963.
Purchased. 1963
1929 June 10 -
Colbeck, R. A., book dealer. Sutton Street, Soho
Square, W.1. London, [England]. To C[yril] H[ackett] Wilkinson. Refers
to Gosse’s copy of Clough’s Ambarvalia.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 13cm.
Removed from Thomas Burbidge and Arthur H. Clough,
Ambarvalia. London, Chapman and Hall; Oxford, Francis
MacPherson, 1849. (Lilly PR4269 .B7A49 1849).
1965
1929 Sept. 29 -
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933, novelist. Grove Lodge,
Hapmstead, London, N.W.3. To Mr. C. G. Parker, W. H. Smith & Son,
Southport. Thanks him for his kind letter and is "glad the exhibition
was not a fiasco."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20.5cm.
- In ink on gray letterhead
- Accompanied by cover
Removed from Galsworthy, John.
Some slings and
arrows from John Galsworthy
. London, Elkin Mathews, 1914. (Lilly PR6013 .A5 A6 1914). 1993
1929 Nov. 22 -
Chambers, Charles Edward Stuart, 1859-1936, publisher,
author. 339 High Street, Edinburgh, [Scotland]. To
[Charles Walter] Berry. "…I have your bottle of 1865 Lafite which I have
placed in my cellar….In return will you accept accompanying literary
trifle compiled by myself…"
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 21cm.
- Letterhead of "Chambers’s Journal," W. & R. Chambers,
Limited, publishers, Edinburgh and London.
Removed from
The letters of Sir Walter Scott and
Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe to Robert Chambers, 1821-1845
,
Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, 1904. (Lilly
PR5334 .A3 1904). 1973
1929 Nov. 26 -
Bullett, Gerald William, 1894-1958, author. East
Harting, Sussex, Nr. Petersfield, [England]. To Ben Abramson, The Argus
Bookshop, Chicago. Regrets he cannot sign a copy of
The Progress of Kay for Abramson as he does
not want to do anything to "encourage collectors to acquire this
particular book which is…the work of my immaturity." He hopes Abramson
will understand.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 17cm.
- Accompanied by cut portion of envelope, 7cm., bearing
cancellation stamp and address.
Removed from Bullett,
The progress of
Kay
…, London, Constable, 1916. (Lilly
PR6003 .U24 P96). 1985
1929 Nov. 27 -
Morgan, Charles, 1894-1958, novelist. 6, More’s
Garden, Cheyne Walk, S.W.3. To [Herbert Patrick Reginald] Finberg. "I
haven’t had your courage to make good an escape from the world and I am
the servant of
The Times – a distracting
master. So much easier to sweep a crossing than to write in one style by
day and another by night."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 20cm.
Purchased. 1973
Bound
[1929] -
Pankhurst, Estelle Sylvia, 1882-1960, editor. Poems
of Mihail Eminescu translated from the Rumanian and rendered into the
original metres.
Typed Document 54p. 23cm.
- With an introduction by Nicolae Iorga.
- Appended on verso of front flyleaf and verso of preface letter
from George Bernard Shaw to Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, Sept. 12, 1929. Autograph Letter
Signed
Source of purchase unknown. 1968
Box 8
1929 - [Photograph of Stephen
Spender]. In the lower right hand corner of the photograph are the
initials A M W and the year 1929.
Photograph 17 x 22 cm.
Purchased. 1968
1930 May 5 -
De La Mare, Walter John, 1873-1956, poet. Taplow,
Buckinghamshire. To [F. C.] Owlett. Permission to use stanzas.
Typed Letter Signed with holograph additions. 1p. 23cm.
Gift. 1961
1930 June 25 -
Sherriff, Robert Cedric, 1896-1975, playwright,
novelist. Rosebriars, Esher, Surrey, [England]. To
[Gertrude Eleanor] Jennings. "I can’t tell you how grateful and
delighted I was to receive your charming letter of encouragement….I had
a rather difficult time after my first play was produced."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1930 July 14 -
Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur Thomas, 1863-1944,
author. The Haven, Fowey, Cornwall, [England]. To [Sir
James Matthew] Barrie. His daughter has just won the Challenge cup for
the third time in succession. He goes on to say "Once, if I remember,
Edinburgh was sticky about doing you justice….Thank you ever so much…. I
prise the thought more even than the honour."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 17cm.
Purchased. 1974
1930 July 26 -
Bates, Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974, author. 15 Essex
Road, Rushden, Northants. To Mr. Dickman. "Its not often that I’ve had
such a thunderstorm of praise, & I’m touched & delighted….People
are a bit fond of saying I’m influenced by David Garnett, but its all
wrong."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1970
1930 Aug. 13 -
Bates, Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974, author. 15 Essex
Road, Rushden, Northants. To Mr. Dickman. "Your letter reached me as I
was about to start off on a walking tour….Its a great pleasure to have
your letters."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1970
1930 Aug. 13 -
Powys, Theodore Francis, 1875-1953, novelist. East
Chaldon, Dorchester [England]. To [Isidore Rosenbaum] Brussel. 45 Gower
Place, London. Thanks him for the book he is returning but fears he
disliked it.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 17.5cm.
- Accompanied by envelope
- Removed from J.B. Cabell’s
Beyond Life:
Dizain des Demiurges
which carried bookplate of I.R.
Brussel
Transfer. Adm. Office, Lilly Library. Bloomington, IN 1994
1930 Aug. 31 -
Bates, Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974, author. 15 Essex
Road, Rushden, Northants. To Mr. Dickman. Gives a short a biographical
sketch of himself.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1970
[1930] Oct. 31 -
Short, Ernest Henry, 1875-1959, author. 52 Stanford
Road, Kensington Court, W.8. [London]. To Sir Gilbert [Parker] "Here is
the tome. I am hopeful it will amuse you…"
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 16cm.
- The book is inscribed to Sir Gilbert Parker, dated Author’s
Club, 1930.
Removed from Short,
The painter in
history
. London, Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., 1929. (Lilly ND50 .S5). 1968
1930 Nov. 4 -
Hanley, James, 1901- author. Note to H. Ernest
Roberts. "People have said that my characters are always striving for
power. Correct…".
Autograph Note Signed 1 leaf 18cm.
Inscribed on front free endpaper of Hanley,
Drift, London, Eric Partridge Ltd., 1930 (Lilly PR6015 .A48D8 1930). 1974
1930 Nov. 10 -
Howard, George Wren, 1893-1968, publisher. Jonathan
Cape Limited, Thirty Bedford Square, London, W.C.1. To George Matthew
Adams Esq., 250 Park Avenue, New York, U.S.A. Unable to determine the
first issue of Coppard’s
Pink Furniture
since it was bound in "varying shades of pink cloth."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 17cm.
- Accompanied by two n.d. notes by George Matthew Adams in which
he comments on his first editions of Coppard’s
Pink Furniture. Typed Documents 2pp.
4.5cm. and 6.5cm.
Removed from Alfred Edgar Coppard,
Pink
Furniture
. London, Jonathan Cape, 1929 (Lilly PR6005 .P64 1929). 1981
1930 Nov. 12 -
Strong, Leonard Alfred George, 1896-1958, author. 3
Oakthorpe Mansions, Oxford, [England]. To Mr. Dickman. "I don’t think
you need be distressed about my having ‘to descend to the level of
hack-writing’."
Autograph Letter Signed 5p. 23cm.
Purchased. 1970
1930 Dec. 28 -
Manning, Fredric, 1887-1935, novelist, poet. Le
Grand Hotel Rome To [Sir James Matthew] Barrie. "Yes, I ran a great
risk, and the most I could hope to do was to evade the difficulties,
which are insoluble."
Autograph Letter Signed 2 leaves. 19 cm.
- Paper watermarked "Scripta Manent"
Purchased. 1974
Bound
1930 -
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933, novelist. "Soames and the flag."
- Proofs, etc., for Scribner's edition
Box 9
1931 Jan. 7 -
Hardy, Mrs. Florence Emily (Dugdale), (Mrs. Thomas Hardy),
-1937, author. To "Sir George." Motion picture of "Under
the greenwood tree;" is sending a "first edition of one of T.H.’s rarer
works."
Autograph Letter Signed 6p. 20cm.
Removed from Indiana University library copy of Thomas Hardy’s The
three wayfarers: a play in one act…New York, The foundation
press: London, The Cayme press, 1930 (PR4750
.T45 1930). 1955
[19]31 June 10 -
Coppard, Alfred Edgar, 1878-1957, poet. [Larg?]
Wittenham, Abingdon, Berks[hire]. To [Cyril William] Beaumont. "Thank
you for your very kind offer…but being bound to the Golden Cockerel…I
must let them have what I can."
Autograph Letter 1p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1976
1931 June 27 -
Burke, Thomas, 1887-1945, author. 33 Tavistock
Square, London, W.C.1. To [Isidore Rosenbaum] Brussel. "I think you said
your copy of
London Spy wasn’t the right
one. If you’d care for a right copy, mint state, virgo intacta, libel
and all, there is one here for you whenever you like."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 21cm.
- Accompanied by envelope postmarked June 27, 1931.
Removed from Thomas Burke,
The London spy.
London, Thorton Butterworth, 1922 (Lilly
PR6003 .U7L87). 1975
1931 July 8 -
Strong, Leonard Alfred George, 1896-1958, author.
Achataitsaig, Ansaig, Invernesshire. To Mr. Dickman. "I am very glad you
liked The Garden, & am much encouraged by your good wishes. I only
hope I may deserve ‘em."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
1931 Oct. 9 -
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957, author, painter. The
Filibusters of Barbary: Memorandum of agreement with Messrs. Eveleigh
Nash & Grayson Ltd. of 66, Curzon Street, Mayfair, London, W. 1 to
publish "said new work".
Typed Document Signed 3 leaves. 33cm.
- Initialed by Lewis on first two leaves and signed on the
third
- Fastened into a manila-colored binder
Purchased. 1973
1931 Oct. 15 -
Forster, Edward Morgan, 1879-1970, novelist. West
Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Dorking. To [John Banting?]. "I am
contributing to the Hogarth Letters and when I heard they were to have a
"cover" I had the gloomiest forebodings…What actually arrives has given
me enormous pleasure…"
Autograph Letter Signed 1 leaf. 23cm.
- Stationery decorated with sketches of two women figures in
green ink
Removed from Forster,
Where Angels fear to
tread
, Edinburgh & London, Blackwood & Sons, 1905 (Lilly PR6011 .O76W56 copy 2). 1975
1931 Nov. 12 -
Bates, Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974, author. The
Granary, Little Chart, nr. Ashford, Kent. To Mr. Malcom. Gives details
of his books to a collector of his works.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
- Accompanied by a list of his books.
Purchased. 1970
1932 Jan. 30 -
Priestley, John Boynton, 1894-1984, author. 27 Well
walk, Hampstead, N.W. 3. To Arthur Hewittt, 23, Clifton Villas, W. 9.
Books on comedians; his
The English comic
characters
.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Removed from Priestley’s
The English comic
characters
…London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, Ltd., [1925] (Lilly PR931 .P7). 1964
1932 Mar. 31 -
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933, novelist. Grand Hotel,
Biarritz, France. To Mrs. Katherine A. White, Studio 671, 730 South
Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California, Etats Unis. "Certain manuscripts
I wouldn’t part with except to important state or municipal libraries;
certain other ones are frankly a question of price offered."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 27cm.
Removed from Galsworthy,
Beyond, a
drama
…New York, Scribners, 1917
(Lilly PR6013 .A5B52). 1972
[19]32, July 25 -
Moult, Thomas, 1895-1974, writer. Black Boy Hotel,
Nottingham [England]. To [James Arthur Waley Cohen]. "It is a pleasure
to hear from one so appreciative."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20.5cm.
Mounted on front paste-down endpaper of Walter T. Spencer,
Forty years in my bookshop. London:
Constablle, 1932 (Lilly Z325 .S74). 1985
1932 Sept. 13 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. Edenbridge,
Kent. To Mr. Dickman. Advice to an aspiring young novelist wishing to
break into the London literary life. "Nobody should write novels at
twenty-one. You haven’t enough experience of life or human nature."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1970
1932 Oct. 10 -
Swinnerton, Frank Arthur, 1884-1983, novelist. To
Kenneth L. Dickman. Regrets that he is unable to help him "publishers at
the moment are reducing staffs and not adding to them….Can you not stick
things for the Winter?...I urge you to finish your book."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
Purchased. 1970
1932 Dec. 14 -
Coventry, Roy. Old Government House Hotel,
Guernsey. To John [Wayneflete] Carter. Refers to copy of Brontë poems
which Charlotte Brontë presented to Mrs. Gaskell.
Autograph Letter Signed 8p. 18cm.
Removed from
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Action
Bell
. London, Aylott and Jones, 1846. (Lilly PR4167 .P74 vault 1).
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
1932 Dec. 24 -
Ricci, Seymour de, 1881-1942, bibliographer. New
York. To [Gabriel] Wells. Confirms statement made in 1923 that Mrs. Rylands copy of Shakespeare’s first folio is
complete and genuine.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 28cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
Bound
1932 -
Spender, Stephen, 1909- , author. Notebook with
cover title of Death of a Judge.
Autograph Document 141 leaves. 21cm.
- Bound in boards trimmed with linen
- 77 blank leaves
- In pen and pencil
Contents:
-
View All (15)
- The Apology of Plato;
- Dark and Light;
- Death of a Judge;
- God who under iron;
- I learn again this map forgotten;
- In your behaviour and your special being;
- The large woman at the bar;
- The little coat embroidered with silken birds;
- Sir! I raise my pen and I raise my head;
- They cheer for peace;
- Whether the man living or the man dying;
- The word dead and the music mad;
- Your heart was loaded with its fate like lead;
- a few diary entries;
- and notes for students being taught at an English
school.
Purchased. 1972
Box 9
[19]33 Feb. 27 -
Last, G H , bookdealer. 25A, The Broadway, Bromely,
Kent, England. To William R[iley] Parker, 98c Banbury Rd, Oxford. Admits
his error about the third edition of the "Milton" and is sending along a
"poor copy" of the second edition as well.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 26.5cm.
- Pencilled book number in upper left hand corner refers to:
John Milton,
The doctrine &
description of divorce
…London, 1644. (first edition text with second edition title
page, Lilly PR3570 .D62 1644).
Transferred from Lilly Library Book Department Bibliographic file. 1980
1933 Apr. 12 -
Gogarty, Oliver St. John, 1878-1957, author. 15 Ely
Place, Dublin. To Albert. "Half the world divides us, but that is a
geographical not a spiritual separation….This is the signature of George
Moore to add to the autograph of Stephens….I hope to get Yeats to copy
out for that fine fellow van Antwerp the Lake Isle."
Typed Letter Signed 2pp. 21cm.
Removed from Gogarty,
Connemara, Dublin,
Alex. Thom. & Co., 1933 (PR6013 .O3C75).
1975
1933 Aug. 23 -
Sackville-West, Hon. Victoria Mary, 1892-1962, poet,
novelist. Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, [England]. To Miss
Richter, "I remember you perfectly and am very sorry to hear that you
were not successful in carrying off the prize."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 22cm.
Removed from Sackville-West,
Seducers in
Eduador
, London, The Hogarth Press, 1924 (Lilly PR6037 .A35S44). 1974
1933 Nov. 22 -
Douglas, Lord Alfred Bruce, 1870-1945, author. 35,
Fourth Aveune, Hove, Sussex. To [Thomas Edward Neil] Driberg. "I see I
am indebted to you for printing my letter about James Douglas…his recent
heroics about poetry & ‘young poets’…rather made my gorge rise."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 25cm.
Removed from Douglas,
The true history of
Shakespeare’s sonnets
. London, Martin Secker, 1933 (Lilly PR2848 .D733). 1975
1933 - [Photograph of
Elizabeth (Bridges) Daryush, 1887-1977, poet.]
Photograph 7x5cm.
- Mounted on white card, 11.5x9cm.
- Accompanied by Daryush’s obituary notice from
The Times [London, Apr. 9, 1977, p. 14]
Removed from Daryush’s
Collected poems.
London: Carcanet New Press, 1976 (Lilly
PR6007.A6A17 1976). 1985
1934 Jan. 6 -
Bates, Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974, author. The
Granary, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent. To Mr. Dickman. Your subscription
will have its official acknowledgement in a day or so & your stories
will be considered as soon as ever possible."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
Purchased. 1970
1934 Mar. 6 -
Lucas, Edward Verrall, 1868-1938, author. The Lotus
Club, New York. To [Robert Joseph] Hamershlag. Refers to Charles Lamb’s
letter to John Aitken, July 5, 1825.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 20cm.
Removed from Lamb’s
A Tale of Rosamund Gray and
old blind Margaret
. London, Printed for Lee and Hurst, 1798.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
[19]34 Mar. 20 -
Sherborn, Charles Davies, 1861-1942, author.
British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London S.W. 7. To Dr.
Whistand. Relates publication information about Roderick Impey
Murchison’s
The Silurian system,…
contained in a letter from the publisher John Murray.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 19cm.
Mounted on inside front cover of Murchison,
The
Silurian system
,… London: J. Murray, 1839 (Lilly QE661 .M973 S58). 1988
[19]34 Aug. 11 -
Oldfield, Claude Houghton, 1889-1961, novelist.
Savage Club, Adelphi, [London] W.C. 2. To Miss Johnson. Comments on his
book
Neighbours.
Autograph Letter Signed 1 leaf. 18cm.
- Stationery embossed with insignia of the Savage Club
Removed from Oldfield’s
Neighbours…London,
Robert Holden & Co., Ltd., 1926 (Lilly
PR6029 .L4N4). 1964
1934 Sept. 3 -
Powell, Anthony, 1905- novelist. Gerald Duckworth
& Co., Ltd., 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C. 2,
[England]. To Alfred [Hubert] Mendes, Esq., 7 Grand Terrace, North
Baldwin, Long Island, New York. "We are sending you…page proofs of
'Pitch Lake'
…the book should have
a very good reception in the press."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1934 Sept. 12 -
Symons, Alphonse James Albert, 1900-1941, author. 6
Little Rusell Street, Bloomsbury, W.C. To Dr. Reid. Replies to Reid’s
letter about Baron Corvo’s homosexuality, especially "before Venice."
Hopes to call upon Reid when he is next in Taunton.
Autograph Letter Signed 3pp. 25cm.
Purchased. 1985
[1934 Sept. 15] -
Butts, Mary Francis, 1892-1937, author. Tebel-Vos.
To [Richard] Ellis-Roberts. "If with propriety I could say I’ve kissed
you—Well, I have. A proper letter follows."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1934 Sept. 27 -
Butts, Mary Francis, 1892-1937, author. Tebel-Vos,
Sennen, [England]. To [Richard] Ellis-Roberts. Concerns the progress of
her husband, Gabriel [Aitken]. "They are doubtful if he’ll ever have
proper use of his left arm again."
Typed Letter Signed 2p. 26cm.
- Holograph note at end of letter. Accompanied by cover.
Purchased. 1970
1934 Nov. 5 -
Beachcroft, Thomas Owen, 1902- , author. 15A,
Harrington Road, London S.W.7. To [Franklin] McDuffee. Sends his new
book which will be published in American in 1935. Hopes he may have some
influence with editors and book reviewers there.
Autograph Letter Signed [2]p. 19.5cm.
Removed from Beachcroft,
A Young man in a hurry,
and other stories
. London: Boriswood, 1934 (Lilly PR6003 .E215 Y68). 1990
1934 Nov. 13 -
Hilton, James, 1900-1954, author. Ingoldsby,
Woodfor Road, Wanstead E. 18 [England]. To Dennis [Yates] Wheatley.
Regrets having to cancel his visit last evening because of illness. "Was
astonished to read in today’s
Telegraph
that I was among those present at the
Sunday
Times
book luncheon yesterday!".
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 22.7cm.
Removed from Hilton,
The Silver Flame.
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1928 (Lilly
PR6015 .I5S58). 1983
1934 -
Grieve, Christopher Murray, 1892-1978, author.
At the sign of the thistle; index.
Autograph Document 6p. 25cm.
- For Grieve’s
At the sign of the
thistle: a collection of essays
. London, Stanley,
Mott, [1934] (PR6013 .R72A8).
Accompanied by
- [1] Grieve’s
"Shadows from the
ship:"
[a poem] n.d. Typed Document Signed 1p.
29cm.;
- [2] Grieve’s
"A vision of
Scotland:"
[a poem] n.d. Typed Document 29cm.;
- [3] Proofs of Grieve’s
"Cattle
show,"
"Faithful in small things,"
and
"The terrible crystal."
4pp.
Purchased. 1964
1935 Feb. 7 -
Lucas, Edward Verrall, 1868-1938, author. To [James
Bertrand] de V[incheles] Payen-Payne. Wants him to look at [Lamb always
Elia, by Edith Christina Johnson.] She is coming to London, and he
wishes Payen-Payne to meet her.
Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Source and date unknown.
[19]35 May 27 -
Watts, Harry, editor. Lloyd’s, London. To [F.
Paget] Helt. Apologizes for not having sent volume before. Expresses
appreciation for the interest Helt has shown in "all I do."
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 17.7cm.
Removed from
Elegantia, n.p., n.p., ca. 1934 (Lilly PR1225
.E44) inscribed: For F. Paget Helt with the Editor’s every good wish.
27/5/35. 1984
1935 June 27 -
Butts, Mary Francis, 1892-1937, author. Hyde Park
Hotel, Knightsbridge, London S.W. 1, [England]. To [Mrs.] Harriet
[Ellis-Roberts]. Refers to Hugh Golding who is desperately unhappy and
very terrified about unemployment. "It nearly broke my heart."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 17cm.
Purchased. 1970
[1935 July 10] -
Butts, Mary Francis, 1892-1937, author. Tebel-Vos,
Sennen, [England]. To Mrs. [Harriet] Ellis-Roberts. "It isn’t lonely
here, with friends around me, & others who come pouring down from
London in cars."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1935 July 15 -
Bates, Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974, author. The
Granary, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent. To Beevers. "What about Coppard’s
stories? I see that he has a new volume due."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1972
1935 July 16 -
Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1895-1977, novelist.
Rossetti House, 106, Hallam Street, Portland Place, W.I. To Miss Soulal.
"Prince Loewenstein and I have just completed a book which tells the
character and the story of every reader who opens it….Another piece of
news is that my brother…has just been decorated by the President of
Finland…".
Typed Letter Signed 2 leaves 23cm.
Purchased. 1974
1935 Sept. 8 -
Bates, Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974, author. The
Granary, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent. To Beevers. "Owing to...pressure
of a new book…I haven’t had a moment to do your novels….A splendid
effort of yours on that squit Grigson!"
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 21cm.
Purchased. 1972
1935 Nov. 17 -
Garnett, Edward, 1868-1937, author. 19 Pond Place,
Chelsea, S.W. 3. To [Herbert Ernest] Bates. Praises the stories in the
collection
Cut and Come Again. "It is you
at your best in originality, feeling & description....A perfect
piece of work."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1970
1935-1936 -
Turnbull & Spears, Ltd., printers. [Record of
printing of John Drinkwater’s
Garibaldi].
Autograph & Typed Document 2p. 26cm.
Removed from Lilly Library copy of Drinkwater’s
Garibaldi…London, Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1936 (Lilly PR6007 .R5G3 copy 2). 1963
Box 10
1936 Mar. 10 -
Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938, poet. Merton
College, Oxford. To George Cookson, 8 Cranbourne Court, Albert Bridge
Road, London, S.W. 11, [England]. "If I can find or produce a poem
before Apl. 17, you shall have it….
English is very good."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
1936 Mar. 25 -
White, J.A., director, Methuen &Co.,
Ltd., publishers, 36 Essex St., London, W.C.2. To J.K.
Cliff, 7, Coventry Road, Wavertree, Liverpool. Regrets inability to
determine which is the earliest issue of two first edition copies of
Charles Edward Montague’s
The Morning’s
War
possessed by Cliff.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Removed from Montague,
The Morning’s War.
London, Methuen, 1913 (Lilly PR6025 .O56M8).
1981
1936 May 25 -
Fiske, Miss D. B. Quotes a message from London on
May 7 regarding the corrected page proofs of
Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley which will be published by
Chatto on June 18.
Typed Note 1p. 12.5cm.
- Typed initials D.B.F.
- Writer’s name taken from label in mailing wrappers which
accompany the page proofs
- Bears penciled note about passing on the message
Laid in with Huxley,
Eyeless in Gaza.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1936 (Lilly
PR6015 .U9E89). 1979
1936 July 28 -
Worthington, William Greville, 1903- , bookseller.
Elkin Mathews Limited, 78 Grosvenor Street, London W.1. To George
Matthew Adams, 444 Madison Avenue, New York City. Worthington has
obtained a first edition of Mary Webb’s
Seven for
a Secret
formerly owned by her sister-in-law, E. Mary
Shelley, which he is offering to Adams.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25.5cm.
- Library call number on letter refers to copy of book in Lilly
Library.
Transferred from Lilly Library Readers’ Services Bibliographile file.
1980
1936 Nov. 6 -
Barrie, Sir James Matthew, bart., 1860-1937, dramatist and
novelist. To Charles Scribner. Refers to manuscript of
Peter Pan presented to Maude Adams.
Telegram. 1p. 17cm.
From the library of Josiah Kirby Lilly, Jr.,
Indianapolis, Indiana. 1956
1936 Dec. 10 -
Symons, Alphonse James Albert, 1900-1941, author. 6
Little Russell Street, Bloomsbury, W.C. To R[obert] G[odfrey] Goodyear,
25 Guildford St[reet] W.C. 1. "As for the permission to quote for which
you ask, I give it gladly…perhaps you will…drink a glass of sherry with
me when I have read your book."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1936 Dec. 18 -
Symons, Alphonse James Albert, 1900-1941, author. 6
Little Russell Street, Bloomsbury, W.C. To R[obert] G[odfrey] Goodyear,
25 Guildford St[reet], W.C1. "I have read your tapestry of the great
predicament with pleasure and interest; and having done so, thank you
again for using Corvo as one of your threads."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1936 Dec. 26 -
Butts, Mary Francis, 1892-1937, author. Sennen,
[England]. To [Richard] Ellis-Roberts. A moving account about a Midnight
mass.
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1937 Jan. 12 -
Symons, Alphonse James Albert, 1900-1941, author.
The First Edition Club, 6 Little Russell Street,
London, W.C.1. To R[obert] G[odfrey] Goodyear, 25 Guildford Street,
[London], W.C.1. "I write on behalf of Mr. Symons…to explain that Mr.
Symons has gone to a nursing home [and] will attend to your letter on
his return."
Typed Letter 1p. 25 cm.
- Letter signed by Beatrice Adams
Purchased. 1970
1937 Jan. 22 -
Butts, Mary Francis, 1892-1937, author. Sennen,
[England]. To [Mrs.] Harriet Ellis-Roberts. "Please, please send me a
post-card today how you both are, & how Ellis’ inside is mending."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1937 Jan. 22 -
Mackenzie, Sir Compton, 1883-1972, author.
Suidheachan, Isle of Barra, Outer Hebrides. To Humbert Wolfe. "I hope
you won’t mind my writing to tell you how deeply I appreciated your
criticism of my book….The encouragement it gave me was immense."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1971
1937 Feb. 12 -
Butts, Mary Francis, 1892-1937, author. Sennen,
[England]. To [Richard] Ellis-Roberts. Congratulates Ellis-Roberts on
reviewing religious books for radio, and includes the promise of a new
religious book of her own.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1937 Feb. 19 -
Symons, Alphonse James Albert, 1900-1941, author. 6
Little Russell Street, Bloomsbury W.D. To [Robert Godfrey] Goodyear.
This is a hasty line to tell you I am back, and to hope that we may
meet. But this coming week is difficult."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Purchased. 1970
1937 Apr. 14 -
Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938, poet.
Merton College, Oxford. To [George] Cookson. "I
ought to be able to get something in…appreciation of John Drinkwater by
June 1st….it would be a very general review of his work (creative) as a
whole, and of its spirit."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
[1937] May 31 -
Abercrombie, Lascelles, 1881-1938, poet.
Merton College, Oxford. To [George] Cookson. "This
should get to you just on the prescribed date. I have written it out in
haste, so I should see proofs."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
1937 June 25 -
Frankau, Gilbert, 1884-1952, author. 17, Basil St.
Knightsbridge, [London, England]. To Dennis [Yates Wheatley]. Was
"really touched to get your wire."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20.5cm.
Removed from Frankau,
Experiments in crime and
other stories
. London, Hutchinson, 1937 (Lilly PR6011 .R26 E8 1937). 1993
1937 Aug. 19 -
Edwards, Mary Stells, 1898?- , author. 12,
Fairfield Avenue, Staines. To [Arthur] Waugh. Thanks him for an
inscribed book. Sends him copy of
Time and
chance
and alludes to her later poems to be entitled
A truce with time.
Typed Letter Signed 2p. 25cm.
Removed from Edwards’
Time and chance,
London: Hogarth Press, 1926 (Lilly PR6009
.D989 T58). 1976
[1937]
Brophy, John, 1899- author.
Child alone.
Typed Document Signed [87] leaves. 27cm.
- Typescript, heavily corrected throughout in the author’s
hand
- Concerns the author’s daughter Brigid, about eight or nine
years old
- Contains selections from Brigid’s writings
- Accompanied by John Brophy to Lord Carolw [George Lionel
Seymour, viscount Carlow], 1907-1944, publisher, 1938, Jan. 1. Autograph Letter
Signed 1p. 25cm.
- Brophy offers the manuscript of
Child
alone
to Lord Carlow for publication by Corvinus
Press.
Purchased. 1970
1938 Feb. 16 -
Worthington, William Greville, 1903- , bookseller.
Elkin Mathews Limited, 78 Grosvenor Street, London W.1. To George
Matthew Adams, 444 Madison Avenue, New York City. Comments on Mary
Webb’s copy of
Browning which has a
passage especially marked: "Oh Lyric love…".
Typed Letter Signed 2pp. 25.5cm.
- Library call number on verso of letter refers to copy of book
in Lilly Library.
Transferred from Lilly Library Readers’ Services Bibliographic file.
1980
Bound
1938 Feb. 23 -
Woolf, Leonard Sidney, 1880-1969, editor.
Preliminary Scheme for the formation of a Partnership between Mr.
Leonard Sidney Woolf and Mr. John Lehmann to take over The Hogarth
Press.
Typed Document Signed 2p. 38cm. Folio.
- Accompanied by signed receipt for three thousand pounds for "½
share of Hogarth Press."
Purchased. 1970
Box 10
1938 Apr. 30 -
Chesson, Wilfred Hugh, author. Childwall, 337
Sandycombe Road, Kew Gardens, Surrey, [England]. To [John] Gawsworth.
Refers to Edgar Jepson and Matthew Phipps Shiel. "But I fear that I tend
to write you an essay in a style likely to pucker a grammarian’s brow,
and I must desist."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 17cm.
Purchased. 1970
1938 May 14 -
Martin, Drelincourt M., 1886?-1949. Vice pres. And
Tres. Duttons Inc. 270 Park Avenue…New York. To
James E. Knott. Offers Knott a copy of G.A. Henty’s
In the Reign of Terror… "it is
more than in very good condition…a fifty
year old book that [is] practically mint."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 28cm.
Removed from G.A. Henty,
In the Reign of
Terror
, London: Blackie and Son, 1888 (Lilly PR4785 .H55 I62). 1982
1938 June 7 -
Ervine, St. John Greer, 1883-1971, playwright,
critic. Honey Ditches, Seaton, Devon, [England]. To Rev.
R[obert] F[leming] Rattray, 26, Queen Edith’s Way, Cambridge, [England].
Refuses permission to produce play at present time.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from St. John Greer Ervine,
Robert’s
Wife
, London, George Allen & Unwin…1938. (Lilly PR6009 .R8 R64). 1976
1939 Jan. 4 -
Ault, Norman, 1880-1950, poet, illustrator. 255
Cowley Road, Oxford, [England]. To Daniel George [Bunting]. Concerning
corrections suggested by Bunting to Ault’s
A
Treasury of unfamiliar lyrics
.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 23cm.
Transfer. Main Library, Indiana University, via Tony Shipps (found in
Ault,
A Treasury of unfamiliar lyrics.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1938. Pr1187
.A85 1938). 1985
1939 Jan. 17 -
Ault, Norman, 1880-1950, poet, illustrator. 255
Cowley Road, Oxford, [England]. To Daniel George [Bunting]. Concerning
corrections suggested by Bunting to Ault’s
A
Treasury of unfamiliar lyrics
and asking assistance in
identifying poem attributed to Alexander Pope.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 23cm.
- Mimeograph, with holograph annotations, of
"Pope’s ‘Lost’ Poems,"
1p.,
enclosed
Transfer. Main Library, Indiana University, via Tony Shipps (found in
Ault,
A Treasury of unfamiliar lyrics.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1938. Pr1187
.A85 1938). 1985
1939 Jan. 24 -
Bates, Herbert Ernest, 1905-1974, author. The
Granary, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent. To Mr. Dickman. "The very fact
that you like
Spella Ho seems to indicate
that you, as well as I, might have advanced towards maturity."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20cm.
Purchased. 1970
1939 Feb. 1 -
Ault, Norman, 1880-1950, poet, illustrator. 255
Cowley Road, Oxford, [England]. To [Daniel] George [Bunting]. "It is
kind of you to promise to keep a look-out for those lost Pope items….I
seem to remember having seen the alleged
'Keats'
poems before, but at the moment can’t recall
where…"
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Transfer. Main Library, Indiana University, via Tony Shipps (found in
Ault,
A Treasury of unfamiliar lyrics.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1938. Pr1187
.A85 1938). 1985
1939 Aug. 19 -
Sassoon, Siegfried Lorraine, 1886-1967, poet.
Heytesbury House, Wiltshire. To Eddie [Marsh]. "I am grateful for your
query about…" a line of poetry in
Rhymed
ruminations
. "Yes, I am very fond of alexandrines (Lionel
Johnson was good at them too, wasn’t he?)"
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Sassoon,
Rhymed ruminations,
London, Cheswick Press, 1939 (Lilly PR6037
.A86R4 1939). 1974
1939 Nov. 3 -
Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952, author. 1 Place Macé,
Antibes, A.M. To Augustus [Edwin John]. Suggests that John meet him
during a projected visit to France. He also refers to several of his
books and closes with a description of his inactive way of life.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1940 May 1 -
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby, 1886-1945,
author.
Oxford University Press, Southfield House, Hill Top
Road, Oxford, [England]. To Zoë Procter, The Religious Drama Society,
S.P.C.K. house, Northumberland Avenue, London, W.C. 2. "I am sending you
herewith a report on the plays which Ruth Spalding brought down for me
to read."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25cm.
Removed from Williams,
Reason and beauty in the
poetic mind
, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1933 (Lilly PN1031 .W722). 1972
1940 Oct. 21 -
De La Mare, Walter John, 1873-1956, poet. The old
park, Penn, Bucks. To Miss Watt. War noise.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 23cm.
Removed from De La Mare’s
Behold this
dreamer
. London, 1939 (Lilly
PR6007 .E3B4). 1963
[1941?] June 1 -
Mackintosh, Elizabeth, 1896-1952, novelist. Crown
Cottage, Inverness, [Scotland]. To [Fredrick William Lloyd]. Offers
congratulations on his performance as Arundel in BORDEAUX for the B.B.C.
broadcast.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 22.5cm.
- Addressed to: Freddie
- Signed: Gordon [for her pseudonym as Gordon Daviot]
- Date 41? penciled in by unknown hand
- Identification of recipient based partly upon note inscribed
in volume from which letter was removed.
Removed from Mackintosh,
The man in queue.
London, Methuen, 1929 (Lilly PR6025
.A263M26). 1979
1941 Oct. 10 -
Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963, author. 7 Cae Coed,
Corwen, Merioneth, N[orth] Wales. To John and Paulette [Buntin]. Powys
writes of his love for Weymouth, his affection for his correspondents,
thanks them for books, and mentions his eyesight.
Autograph Letter Signed 4pp. 20.5cm.
- Written in rambling style, on blue-gray paper with blue
ink.
Purchased. 1977
1943 Dec. -
Armstrong, Terence Ian Fytton, 1912-1970, poet.
Italy. Inscription of Armstrong’s
"Legacy to
Love"
to John Chichester.
Autograph Note Signed 1p. 18cm.
- Signed: John Gawsworth
- In blue ink on gray paper
Mounted in Armstrong,
Legacy to Love.
London, Collins, 1943 (Lilly PR6001 .R77L49).
1981
1944 July 25 -
Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963, author. To Alyse
[Gregory]. "That letter of yours, my friend was indeed All that the
nicest kind of letter can be—full of…airy fancies in your best style
full of sweet mischiefs & legitimate gossips…interesting details of
every sort."
Autograph Letter Signed 4p. 22cm.
Purchased. 1971
1944 Nov. 22 -
Muir, Percival Horace, 1894-1979, bibliographer.
Takeley, Bishops Stortford, [England]. To S[ydney] C[astle] Roberts. 12,
Chaucer Road, Cambridge, [England]. Discusses Robert’s criticisms of
Muir’s
Book collecting as a hobby.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 17cm.
- On Elkin Mathews letterhead.
- Refers to Robert’s letter to Muir dated Nov. 18, 1944 – Elkin Mathews
mss.
Removed from Muir,
Book collecting as a
hobby
. London, Chesham: Gramol, [1944] (Lilly Z992 .M953 B7). 1990
1944 Dec. 28 -
Marshall, Bruce, 1899-1987, novelist. 55 Manchester
St., London, W 1. To Lady [Una Elena Vincenzo (Taylor)] Troubridge.
Thanks Lady Troubridge for her suggestions regarding an error in
Yellow Tapers for Paris. Expresses his
admiration for Radclyffe Hall’s work, especially
The Well of Loneliness.
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 18cm.
Removed from Marshall,
All Glorious
Within
. London, Constable, 1944
(Lilly PR6025 .A751A75). 1981
1945 Jan. 5 -
Marshall, Bruce, 1899-1987, novelist. 55 Manchester
St., London, W. 1. To Lady [Una Elena Vincenzo (Taylor)] Troubridge.
Will be delighted to lunch with Lady Troubridge of he is "still
militarily free."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Marshall,
All Glorious
Within
. London, Constable, 1944
(Lilly PR6025 .A751A75). 1981
[19]45 Jan. 9 -
Armstrong, Terence Ian Fytton, 1912-1970, poet.
Base HQ, RAF – Bombay – India. To John Chichester Esq., 168 Rathmines
Road, Dublin, Eire. Gives his new address. Notes that currently he is in
a military hospital with a fever.
Photocopy of Autograph Airgrafe Signed 1p. 14cm.
- Also signed: "John Gawsworth"
Removed from Armstrong,
Legacy to Love.
London, Collins, 1943 (Lilly PR6001 .R77L49).
1980
1945 Jan. 15 -
Marshall, Bruce, 1899-1987, novelist. 55 Manchester
St., London, W. To Lady [Una Elena Vincenzo (Taylor)] Troubridge. Thanks
Lady Troubridge fro sending him
The Master of the
House
. Has spoken to Michael Sadlier about Radclyffe Hall’s
work and Sadlier may write to her.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Marshall,
All Glorious
Within
. London, Constable, 1944
(Lilly PR6025 .A751A75). 1981
[19]45 Mar. 12 -
Armstrong, Terence Ian Fytton, 1912-1970, poet.
Section 17, HQ, Base Air Forces, South East Asia. To [John] Chichester.
Glad that Chichester has an American publisher in mind for him since
Collins has rejected his new book Snow and Sand. Military life makes it
difficult to write love poems.
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 20cm.
Removed from Armstrong,
Legacy to Love.
London, Collins, 1943 (Lilly PR6001 .R77L49).
1980
[19]46 Apr. 30 -
Armstrong, Terence Ian Fytton, 1912-1970, poet. The
English Digest, 1, Furnival Street, London, E.C.4. To John Chichester,
Esq., 168 Rathmines Road, Dublin, Eire. Will not be coming over just
yet; Collins considering his new manuscript.
Autograph Postcard Signed 1p. 14cm.
Removed from Armstrong,
Legacy to Love.
London, Collins, 1943 (Lilly PR6001 .R77L49).
1980
[19]46 May 29 -
Armstrong, Terence Ian Fytton, 1912-1970, poet. The
English Digest, 1, Furnival Street, London, E.C.4. To John Chichester
Esq., 168 Rathmines Rd., Dublin. Introducing his cousin Tony Jackson of
Cork – "show him the cider bar."
Autograph Postcard Signed 1p. 14cm.
Removed from Armstrong,
Legacy to Love.
London, Collins, 1943 (Lilly PR6001 .R77L49).
1980
1946 Nov. 24 -
Davies, Rhys, 1903-1978, novelist. Revere Bishop’s
Lydeard, nr Taunton: Somerset. To L. E. L. Downing, Esq. "If you will
send the books I will be pleased to inscribe them. I am at the above
address for about ten days more."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 18cm.
Removed from Davies,
The trip to London.
London, Toronto, William Heinemann, 1946 (PR
6007 .A73T83) which bears the bookplate of Lionel Downing. 1975
1947 Mar. 11 -
Chesson, Wilfred Hugh, author. 337 Sandycombe Road,
Kew Gardens, Surrey, [England]. To [John] Gawsworth. Refers to the
obituary notice about Shiel. "His industry considering the high quality
of his prose and invention, was amazing."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1947 Mar. 20 -
Chesson, Wilfred Hugh, author. 337 Sandycombe Road,
Kew Gardens, Surrey, [England]. To [John] Gawsworth. "I have now read
with interest and sympathy the poems in the two brochures which you gave
me and admire the subtle sincerity and mordant are displayed
therein."
Autograph Letter Signed 3p. 18cm.
Purchased. 1970
1947 Mar. 25 -
Chesson, Wilfred Hugh, author. 337 Sandycombe Road,
Kew Gardens, Surrey, [England]. To [John] Gawsworth. "I was not a Thomas
‘fan’ but had a system of illustrating my subjects by reviews of them by
any pen."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1947 Mar. 28 -
Coppard, Alfred Edgar, 1878-1957, poet. Hillside,
Dutton Hill, Dunmow, Essex. To Mr. Downing "Here is your
'Dark-eyed Lady'
vaccinated as you
require." Also refers to rationing in England.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 20cm.
Removed from Coppard,
Dark-eyed
lady
…London, Meuthen & Co. Ltd. [1947]. (Lilly PR6005 .O55 D2 copy 2). 1966
1947 Apr. 23 -
Chesson, Wilfred Hugh, author. 337 Sandycombe Road,
Kew Gardens, Surrey, [England]. To [John] Gawsworth. "I read aloud your
sonnet sequence, admiring its long sustainment of poetic tone, its
expression of conflict between fleshly desire & spiritual love, its
fusion of those raptures."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1947 May 15 -
Waters, Louis Addison, 1918- , professor. Report on
the handwriting appearing in Forman copy of
Queen
Mab
with notes and photographs.
Typed Document Signed 54p. 28cm.
Sent to Latrhop C. Harper, 8 West 40th Street, New York, New York, 10018,
from the estate of Gabriel Wells, 145 West 57th Street, New York, New
York, March 20, 1950.
Lathrop C. Harper to the Lilly Library. 1968
1947 June 24 - [S____], N____.
The Hogarth Press. 40-42 William IV Street,
London, W.C.2. To John [Davy] Hayward. 19 Carlisle Mansions, Cheyne Walk
[London]. Is sending a copy of ‘Innocents.’ "We have moved heaven and
earth to get this book out by June 30th."
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 12.9cm.
- Signature indecipherable, but possibly Norah
[Smallwood].
Removed from Barker, Autograph Letter
Innocents:
Variations on a theme
. London, Hogarth Press, 1947 (Lilly PZ3 .B23977 In). 1994
1947 July 10 -
Chesson, Wilfred Hugh, author. 337 Sandycombe Road,
Kew Gardens, Surrey, [England]. To [John] Gawsworth. "with grateful and
gratified self-conceit, I see my name among the intelligentsia of
Redona. I suspect that the names of the duchies have an allusiveness
which is at present hidden from me."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 26cm.
Purchased. 1970
1947 Sept. 12 -
Barker, Audrey Lillian, 1918- , author. 20
Blakehall Road, Carshalton Beeches, Surrey [England]. To [John Davy]
Hayward. Thanks him for his letter of congratulation, "I am extremely
lucky to have this chance…"
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 25.5cm.
Removed from Barker, Autograph Letter
Innocents:
Variations on a theme
. London, Hogarth Press, 1947 (Lilly PZ3 .B23977 In). 1994
1948 Mar. 27 -
Chesson, Wilfred Hugh, author. 337 Sandycombe Road,
Kew Gardens, Surrey, [England]. To [John] Gawsworth. "please don’t
suppose for a simple moment that I wish personally to profit by
anybody’s wish to grace a periodical with a specimen of Nora’s
poetry."
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 24cm.
Purchased. 1970
[19]48 Sept. 29 -
Flower, Desmond, 1907- , poet, publisher.
Cassell & Company, Ltd. 37/38 St. Andrew’s
Hill…London, [England]. To Roger Senhouse, Messrs, Secker & Warburg.
States "…the Exhibition is all arranged" and that he was unable to
include Senhouse’s copy of
Voyage d’Urien
so he is returning it.
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20.5cm.
Removed from André Gide,
Le Voyage
d’Urien
, Paris, Société du Mercure de France, 1897 (Lilly PQ2613 .I3 V975). 1985
1948 Oct. 22 -
Dick, Kay, 1915- , novelist, critic. Coombewood,
Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, [England]. To Daniel [George Bunting].
Discusses her first book,
By the Lake,
the proof of which she is returning to Bunting, and her wish to edit a
volume of Jane Carlyle’s letters.
Typed Letter Signed 3p. 20.3cm.
- Includes two autograph postscripts in green ink
- Accompanied by two printed rejection slips from the Windmill;
on the verso of one is a holograph note by Daniel George
Bunting
Removed from Dick,
By the Lake, London, W.
Heinemann, 1948 (Lilly PR6064 .I29 B993).
1985
1948 Nov. 25 -
Frere, Alexander Stewart, 1896-1984, editor. To Mr.
Oliver. "Here is the finally corrected copy of THE PAINTED
VEIL from Mr. Somerset Maugham."
Typed Note 1p. 15cm.
- Accompanied by typescript of revised last paragraph of
Maugham’s
The Painted
Veil
.
Removed from Maugham’s
The Painted Veil.
London, William Heinemann [1925] (Lilly
PR6035 .A83P14 1925d). 1973
1949 Mar. 18 -
De La Mare, Walter John, 1873-1956, poet.
Twickenham, England. To H. Kauti, New York, New York. Will inscribe two
or three books for him.
Typed Letter Signed 1p. 14cm.
Mounted on front fly leaf of De La Mare’s
The
fleeting and other poems
. London, Constable, [1933].
Cover mounted on front end papers of same volume. 1958
1949 Oct. 27 -
Raine, Kathleen Jessie, 1908- , poet. 9 Paultons
Square, London. To Miss Elisabeth Cher, West Bank, Bideford, N. Devon,
[England]. "How well I know that thing of writing poems late at night –
only one poem in
Stone & Flower was
written in daylight, all the others in the evenings…".
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 14cm.
Removed from Raine,
The Hollow Hill and Other
Poems
. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1965 (Lilly PR6035 .A37H73). 1975
[19]49 Oct. 28 -
Truss, Leslie Seldon, 1892- , author. Dale Hill
House, Ticehurst, Sussex. To Bip Pares, 18, Hoycroft Avenue, Hampstead,
London, N.W.3. Extends his appreciation for Miss Pares’ doing the
wrapper of his latest book, "the eighth or ninth during the past twenty
years." Requests that she always include "my owl" as he has become
attached to this bird.
Autograph Letter Signed 2pp. 17.6cm.
- Gray stationary
- Accompanied by envelope readdresses from c/o Messrs Hodder
& Stoughton…E.C.6
Removed from Truss,
Rooksmiths. London,
Hodder and Stoughton, 1936 (Lilly PR6039
.R99R77). 1985
1949 Dec. 4 -
Coppard, Alfred Edgar, 1878-1957, poet. To Mr.
Downing. "I have not issued a volume since 1947, but expect to ‘come
again’ towards the end of 1950."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20cm.
Removed from Coppard,
Dark-eyed
lady
…London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. [1947] (Lilly PR6005 .O55 D2 copy 2). 1966
1949 Dec. 17 -
Meyerstein, Edward Harry William, 1889-1952, poet.
3 Grey’s Inn Place, W.C.1. To [Thomas Moult] and [Constance McColl]. "I
don’t know if you have the enclosed…it is in lieu of a Christmas
Card."
Autograph Letter Signed 1p. 20cm.
- Recipients determined from inscription in Meyerstein,
Odes on several contemplative and
metaphysical subject.
Oxford, England: Basil
Blackwell, 1923 (Lilly PR6025 .E9
O23)
Removed from above volume. 1991
[19]50 Apr. 28 -
De La Mare, Walter John, 1873-1956, poet.
Twickenham, Middlesex. To _____ Downing. His grandson; his writings;
"China children;" plates.
Autograph Letter Signed 2p. 13cm.
Purchased. 1964