LEWIS
(C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of ‘The Screwtape Letters’)
Autograph envelope signed with initials “C.S.L.” addressed to “Mrs Neylan”,
at “Hoo Mill, Watlington, Oxford”, 4¾” x 3¾”, postmarked Oxford, 22nd November
Item Date:
1945
Stock No:
43259
£525
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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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"I EXPECT TO HEAR SHORTLY OF HIS BEING GONE TO GRETNA GREEN WITH SOME FEMALE BLACKAMOOR"
LEWIS
(Matthew Gregory "Monk", 1775-1818, Novelist and Dramatist
Autogrph letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he intends to "accept your invitation on Thursday: if it is inconvenient to receive me on that day, you must direct to me at Barnes, otherwise I shall not hear from you ... I congratulate Brook on his safe arrival after all 'his moving accidents by flood and field'; I expect to hear shortly of his being gone to Gretna Green with some female Blackamoor 'who loved him for the dangers he had past' ...", 1 side 8vo., Barnes, Monday no date, annotated in another hand as 6th November
Item Date:
1806
Stock No:
40227
£1250
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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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