“I’M REALLY A SINGULARLY UNPATRIOTIC PERSON AND EVEN IN THE WAR I’M PRO EUROPE...”
WELLS
(H. G., 1866-1946, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Ferdinand LEIPNIK
(1869-1924, Spy, Art Historian, Entrepeneur) saying he “would like to meet you. I’m really a singularly unpatriotic person & even in the war I am pro Europe & pro civilisation rather than pro British. There is great danger of all the fine possibilities[?] of the war being swamped in purely natural passion. Could you come to me down here for the next week end August 28th-30th & talk?...”, 1 side 4to., with original autograph envelope, Litttle Easton Rectory, Dunmow headed paper, no date, probably August
Item Date:
1916
Stock No:
42563
£775
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WELLS
(H. G., 1866-1946, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Dr H. D. Jennings White
saying that he seems “to be the focus of a concerted attack from several people I know nothing about. I don’t remember anything particularly outrageous in your review of Bing’s book. But then I didn’t read it very carefully because I had never heard of Dr Bing & I didn’t keep that copy of Plan. I could get your book... from the Times B. Club, but by paying 4/6 as a reading fee I made them buy it. They said there was no demand for it. I never buy books if I can help it - it is just a habit - acquired in my early days as a mendacious reviewer. But it is all the same for you. I like your book... I like your altruism and a sort of outrageous common sense but I guess you have been scarred by disputes & contentions in the past. You seem to have had some sort of dispute about mental disturbance now having a physiological origin. You’ve taken up that position & you’re going to stick to it, so I won’t argue with you. You’re wrong... I doubt if you know anything much about the liver or the kidney. Forgive these casual remarks, but I fear your intensity. Where did you do your psycho analysis? I see you have a PhD. But you don’t say where you got it. Did you ever come across Pavloff? In his latter days he was dabbling in psychotherapeutics. Anyhow Entrophy is a great word...”, 3 sides 8vo., with original typed envelope, 13 Hanover Terrace headed paper, 4th February
Item Date:
1942
Stock No:
43586
£775
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WELLS
(H. G., 1866-1946, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to H. D. Jennings White
saying “You have no worldly wisdom. I asked someone about you. Have you heard of Herman? I’m told that he got his Ph. D. in some German or Austrian university where it is difficult to avoid them & his M.A. is... from Durham or somewhere. Please put your feathers on straight. M.A. Oxon Ph. D. Lond. By the bye did you meet my son Gip at University Coll?...”, 2 sides 16mo., on separate sheets, with original envelope, 13 Hanover Terrace heaaded paper, 16th February
Item Date:
1942
Stock No:
42713
£525
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WEST
(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
"The Birds Fall Down", signed, inscribed
"My gratitude to Elizabeth Barber - and many hopes that she will have a riotous retirement", on the front end-paper, and dated, 30th March 1971, 8vo., Macmillan, Melbourne - Toronto,
Item Date:
1966
Stock No:
3712
£75
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(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘Rebecca W.’ to Diana MARR-JOHNSON
(1908-2007, Social Advocate, Novelist and Playwright, niece of Somerset Maugham), saying she has “often wanted to get in touch with you. But I have wasted the last few years in winding up my husband’s estate, which has nearly driven me mad, and all my married life our affairs have been handed over punctiliously to a firm of accountants, who have now handed it back to me in the state of a piece of knitting played with by a litter of kittens. As I picked up the stitches I have had more and. more trouble with. my eyes and so. life has been a shambles. I’ve got my eyes as right as I can and tried to get the knitting on the needles again, and I would like to see you!... Thank you for your book and your kind lunch. (That was a lovely party Sarah and Marjorie gave for me! And I saw so many people lie you that I had been barred off from for so long). I will read your book with pleasure... About Barbara - she is very glad of company if one can sacrifice oneself for an hour or two. She is very old now, and very stiff... and very distraught. But she is sweet and affectionate with her bitchiness and it is all very sad...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 48 Kingston House North, Prince’s Gate, S.W.7., 9th February
Item Date:
1973
Stock No:
41929
£275
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