BLOUËT
(Paul, 1848-1903, French Author, Journalist and Lecturer under the pseudonym Max O'Rell)
Group of 4 autograph letters signed, in French with translation,
to 'Dear friend', his agent in England, saying "You may have learnt that I underwent a fearful operation in New York. They cut out 26 inches of my large intestine. I abandoned the whole trip ... If you could let me have say £10 of the ones you owe me (£17 15s 6d) you would remove a notable thorn in my flesh" (London, 10th April 1902), "The Sieur C. has been threatening me with the King's Bench for a year", but "his lawyer ... can do nothing ... It's a bluff, and I hope you will send him to the devil as I do", saying when he will be in England and suggesting two free dates "at six guineas for the Sunday League" (Paris, 25th October 1902), "The three contracts are very good" but wondering what to do about illustrations (Paris, 4th December 1902), with a letter in pencil, "Your letter found me bed-ridden. They are wondering if I will pull through", adding in English "Everything is cancelled" (Paris, 16th March, probably 1903), together 4 sides 8vo, 7 Park Place, St James's, London, and 9 Rue Freycinet, Paris, 1902 - (probably)
Item Date:
1903
Stock No:
52900
£175
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BLOUNDELLE-BURTON
(John Edward, d. 1917, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to the Lord Mayor (Sir William Treloar)
accepting for dinner at the Mansion House on 29th June, 1 side 8vo., Scarth Lodge, Barnes Common, S.W., 2nd May
light remains of laying down on blank fourth side
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
16797
£15
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BLOUNDELLE-BURTON
(John Edward, d.1917, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Mayor Treloar,
accepting for dinner at the Mansion House on May 25th, 1 side 8vo., Scarth Lodge, Barnes Common, S.W., 10th April
traces of laying down on blank fourth side
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
16796
£15
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BLUNDEN ON HARRIET SHELLEY
BLUNDEN
(Edmund, 1896-1974, Poet & Critic)
Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Catherine Maclean
saying that it was "exceedingly kind of you to write about the lecture on M. Lamb. At about 5 minutes before it was to begin I doubted if I should get to it myself, for a fog descended on the Euston region as dense as I ever knew and the Hall seemed undiscoverable. i hope you are past the heavy cold which at least saved you from that dilemma. And best thanks for your generous reception of Shelley(will all errors and errata.) I hope to improve the book one day, having in particular much curious information to add. Incidentally I think it certain that Harriet Shelley only left her father's house right at the end, and that the failure of a letter from her to reach Mme de Boinville was the immediate reason for her unhappy decision. Maybe the whole affair was more deeply operant in Shelley's later life, even to the end, than I was thinking when the book was written ..." ending about a "merry pamphlet Blackwood's prose and verse on the Londoners would make! the nimble villains ...", 1 side 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 'The Times' headed paper, Printing House Square, 16th March
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
39467
£325
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ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED
BLUNDEN
(Edmund, 1896-1974, Poet & Critic)
Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Thomas Brumbough in America,
thanking him for his letter and hoping "that literary interests will lighten the burden of army life as long as that is your portion. For my part I have (including military duties) rather a lot to do, and you will pardon a short letter from a weary pen, perhaps the few lines appended will meet your wish to have something in the way of an autograph ...", together with a complete short poem signed titled 'The Lost Name', starting "No ship perhaps again will ever bear / That fatal name / Which at the christening challenged everywhere / Seafaring fame / But was to see calamity so vast / Multiplied so / That times may quite forget that wreck of the past / No one would know / And under her grey name a proud new ship / May yet advance / Thronged with young faces brilliant for the trip / God guard the dance!", 1 side 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 12 Woodstock Close, Oxford, 1st December
Item Date:
1943
Stock No:
39466
£375
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