MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED BY C. S. LEWIS
LEWIS
(C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of ‘The Screwtape Letters’)
Autograph Fair Copy with one correction of his poem “Vowels and Siren” with one variation from the printed version,
the poem starts “Chosen to seduce you, / Those dove-like vowels, / Deuro – kudos – Odusseus. / Opening the bay, his prow. Appeared. The air rang with / Sirens’ voices. / The hero, bound, in anguish / Tried to retract his choice...”, however the third verse has a different last line and runs “No word of solace / For a lover’s longing / They breathed. Of vanished knowledge / Was their intemperate song...”, whereas the published version has the word “interrupted”, he has also corrected the first word of the next verse but otherwise the last three verses are the same as the printed version, 1 side A4, Magdalen College, Oxford, no date but circa
Item Date:
1950
Stock No:
42441
£19500
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SIGNATURE OF ‘ALICE’
LIDDELL
(Alice Pleasance Hargreaves, neé Liddell, 1852-1934, the little girl that Lewis Carroll used as the model for ‘Alice in Wonderland’)
Fine signature on card
3½” X 2½”, no place, dated in another hand 16th April
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
42683
£375
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LINKLATER
(Eric, 1899-1974, Writer)
Fine signature and "Good wishes" on Savile Club headed card
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
7912
£10
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ELIOT PROBABLY EXAGGERATED AS POETS DO
LINKLATER
(Eric, 1899-1974, Scottish Writer)
Typed Letter Signed to David SELF
(1941-2008, Teacher, Writer and Broadcaster), thanking him and saying "I am glad you liked my introduction", he knows "something of the perils of teaching ... your school motto might well carry a sub-motto for the masters' common room: 'Boys agitant mentem' ", with Linklater's typescript signed and dated saying "A choir of young voices is always delightful ... it's an excellent idea to let the owners ... write their own carols, and then put them on exhibition. In the 1964 anthology there was a great deal of wonderfully fresh writing" with "the unsullied feeling of natural soloists", he is sure "the new volume will again be filled with pages as bright as April and ... very occasionally - as tearful as April; which as T.S. Eliot reminded us, can sometimes be cruel, though he probably exaggerated, as poets do", and sending his "warm congratulations ... to every young genius behind his desk and to the terrifying masters who so tenderly nurture that genius ...", 1 side 10" x 8", no place, January 1965, the letter 1 side 9" x 7", Pitcalzean House, Tain, Ross-shire, 3rd February
Item Date:
1965
Stock No:
54284
£250
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LINTON
(Eliza Lynn, 1822-1898, Novelist and Journalist)
Autograph letter signed to Mrs Suckling senior,
(Caroline, daughter of William Loaden, wife, 1847, of Vice-Admiral W.B. Suckling of Highwood Lodge, 1788-1865, near Romsey), saying she has left London and "taken a small house in Malvern ... battling ... with ... the modern servant ... simply profligate of the most abandoned kind ... I found 'society' too small for me at last ... a tendency to bronchitis and pneumonia", talking of the past and remaining members of her family, and her daughter Lucy's children, "the boys have all been very handsome ... in the navy ... an army chaplain ... the Stock Exchange in Glasgow, & the youngest is in Africa ... an 'explorer', which does not bring grist to his private mill ... I am very glad you wrote to me ... as we grow older we do turn back in love to the old friends & the old times! Aff[ectionatel]y yours dear 'Caro'", 4 sides 7" x 4½", Brougham House, Malvern, 12th July
Item Date:
1896
Stock No:
53556
£100
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