MANNIN
(Ethel, 1900-1984, Travel Writer and Novelist)
Typed Letter Signed to the Frederick Staerck,
thanking him for his letter and saying she is “glad you like ENGLAND MY ADVENTURE - a number of people seem to have done so, and to have liked it more than the previous two England books, ENGLAND FOR A CHANGE (1968) and ENGLAND AT LARGE (1970). I think perhaps the relating of places to people, as in the third book, does make it more interesting. My publishers would like me to do yet another book of this kind, this time going north of the Border, but though I like the Border country I don’t think I will, as being now old, I find all the travelling involved very tiring. And three is anyhow a nice round number, and completes a trilogy! As does the novel I had out on the day you wrote, MISSION TO BEIRUT, the third of the novels with Middle East background which began with THE MIDNIGHT STREET... based on the life and death of Gen. Qassim of Iraq and to which FREE PASS TO NOWHERE (1970) was a kind of sequel. I will write no more novels, now, with a Middle East setting... there was a novel with a mainly North West Frontier of India (now Pakistan) setting, THE CURIOUS ADVENTURE OF MAJOR FOSDICK. For the setting of the 1974 novel I am at present working on I’ve gone to an island off the West coast of Scotland...” ending with a note about the origin of her and her correspondent’s surnames, 1 side 4to., Oak Cottage, 27 Burghley Road headed paper, 3rd March
Item Date:
1973
Stock No:
42448
£125
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MARKOVA
(Dame Alicia, 1910-2004, Ballerina and Choreographer)
Charming postcardsphoto by signed in green ink,
showing head and shoulders, looking slightly to her right, wearing a bonnet and a diamond necklace, no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
42446
£75
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MARRYAT
(Frederick, 1792-1848, Captain & Novelist, Author of ‘Peter Simple’ & ‘Midshipman Easy’)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he will “have great pleasure in dining with you on Thursday next at 7 o’clock...”, 1 side small 8vo., 8 Duke Street, St James, Tuesday, no date
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0
Stock No:
42450
£225
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MASEFIELD
(John, 1878-1967, Poet Laureate)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Dixson
thanking him for his letter and telling him that “after the 1st of June I shall be free to see you here almost any afternoon between 4 & 5 and shall be delighted if you will come up...” 1 side A4, “The Hill Players” headed paper with a Woodcut Vignette at the head showing the players on the hill, Boar’s Hill, no date
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0
Stock No:
42452
£125
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MENUHIN
(Sir Yehudi, 1916-1999, American Violinist and Conductor, 1st Baron)
Fine Typed Letter Signed ‘Yehudi’ to Dr Camille Honig
saying that “no one can possibly take exception to the founding of a Martin Buber Society, but it is quite unrealistic to organise the kind of function you have in mind for the 23rd September: these things simply cannot happen that way. Everyone is already committed... for myself I am up to my eyes and ears in the Commonwealth Arts Festival... Incidentally in the clipping from Time magazine about Buber it is not quite correct to say that he was ‘Judaism’s first ecumenist, who revered Jesus as much as a Jew might’, for actually Constantin Brunner preceded him with his book Unser Christus...”, 1 side 4to., Upper Frognal Lodge, Hampstead, 27th October
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
42454
£175
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