BELLOC
(Hilaire, 1870-1953, Poet, Historian & Essayist)
Autograph Letter Signed with initials to Mr BRITTEN
(James, 1846-1924, Botanist) saying that "it drags its slow length along. I am now having one days leisure & adding a few more pages to the M.S.S. It isn't half done! But you shall have it the moment it is ...", King's Land, Shipley headed paper, 21st September
Item Date:
1917
Stock No:
39847
£75
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BELLOC
(Hilaire, 1870-1953, Poet, Historian & Essayist)
Autograph Letter Signed to an illegible correspondent
saying that he has “poisoned a finger & have to write as well as I can with thumb & 4th finger. I hope it is legible! My secretary is on holiday. Aug 7th is no good as I have guests here. I’m in town the 14th. If that would do, let me know soon and I’ll arrange...”, 1 side 4to., King’s Land, Shipley headed paper, 5th August
Item Date:
1931
Stock No:
42726
£125
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BENEVISTE
(Asa, 1925-1990, American Poet, Typographer and Publisher)
Typed Letter Signed to Mr Pollet,
rejecting his poems "I like your poems for their obvious sincerity and the area of feeling in which they operate, but I was slightly disturbed by the archaism of your language. It's as though you've let bypass you the experiments with language which English poetry has shown for the past decades. No doubt deliberately but still disturbing, and I think it somewhat undermines what you have to say ... my assessment of anyone's poems is a matter of taste and hardly objective. So I tell you what I think on the one hand, and on the other I would advise you to ignore it and write poems only the way you want ...", 1 side 4to., Trigram Press Headed Paper, 27th January
Item Date:
1970
Stock No:
39580
£55
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BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in full to Mr Wood
thanking him for his letter and saying that he was "certainly under the impression that you did not wish to pay any fee at all. I think that you had now better make me an offer. I certainly do not want a high fee, but some fee I must have. I am entirely with you in your non-financial aim; but I do not think that the publisher's profits are quite so problematical as you seem to think ...", 1 side 4to., 75 Cadogan Square, 2nd October
Item Date:
1924
Stock No:
39294
£475
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BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Brief Autograph Note Signed "E A Bennett" to C. Metcalf
of the Author's Syndicate, "Thomas Baines. Proofs received", on a card headed "Woman", 2 sides postcard, St Dunstan's Chambers, Fleet Street, 25th April
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
39860
£125
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