BEATON REPORTING ON SOCIAL LIFE IN NEW YORK IN 1949
BEATON
(Sir Cecil, 1904-1980, Photographer & Designer)
Fine Autograph Letter in pencil, Signed to “Dearest Ava”, Lady Waverley, signed “Cecil”
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) saying that he has “tried many shops for your address book but nothing nice to be found after the Christmas storm had emptied every quarter, now however, I have bought one from Bergdorf Goodman. It isn’t really a good one, but may do, & I will bring it over when I arrive mid February. It has been rather a dull winter here - in comparison to London there is an orgy of glitter, food & excitement but no one is really content - New Yorkists very bored by their... existence yet unsure of the future & so chary of spending money. It is a very different atmosphere & it is quite remarkable to find how economical & thrifty most people have become - a semi slump, though nothing quite so dramatic as a slump, in the book cinema & theatre world. Men’s clothes reduced - ‘slashing sales’. Very... Play, Only Martita Hunt in the Folle de Chaillot is outstanding - a lovely imaginative play unspoilt by a poor production - I go to Philadelphia tomorrow to see ‘the Death of a Salesman’ which is supposed to be a beautiful play. The Sitwells are a big success & getting large sums for their lecture tours. Randolph C & newly wed also on circuit - also Evelyn Waugh & his wife... about to join the ranks of lecturers...”, 4 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, The Plaza Hotel, New York heaaded paper, 26th January
Item Date:
1949
Stock No:
42667
£275
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BEECHAM
(Sir Thomas, 1879-1961, Conductor & Impresario)
Autograph cheque signed to “The Commissioners of Inland Revenue”
for the sum of £100, on a printed Midland Bank cheque form, London, 1st August
Item Date:
1953
Stock No:
42704
£65
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BENSON
(Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of ‘Mapp & Lucia’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Riggs
saying that he “wouldn’t bother much over Daisy’s Aunt - I think she was rather a bore. But why should you think I could snub you for telling me so charmingly that you like some of my perpetration? I like David, too. I want to know how to go on with him. Perhaps better to leave him...”, 2 sides 8vo., 25 Brompton Square, 1st March
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
42669
£225
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BESANT
(Mrs. Annie, 1847-1933, née Wood, Freethinker, later Theosophist, Women’s Rights Activist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr GIMSON
(Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) saying that she can “go to Leicester on March 22nd. I have recovered from last Sunday’s work, save for some aching of the limbs but the thing is that I must not run the risk of such exposure. The cold hits my heart, & the risk is too great...”, 1 side 8vo., “Annie Besant” headed paper, 19 Avenue Road, St John’s Wood, 16th June
Item Date:
1891
Stock No:
42666
£375
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BETJEMAN
(Sir John, 1906-1982, Poet Laureate)
Small collection of Autograph Letters to Percy MUIR
(1894-1979, Antiquarian Bookseller, Collector and Bibliographer) and his wife, the first to “Dear Bibliomuir, thanking him for thinking of him. As a matter of fact I like it very much & have seen other places in that process, but not Brighton. As a little token of thanks I enclose this Chiselhampton thing. The money was substantial, so keep it as a souvenir...”, 1 side 8vo., The Mead Wantage, Berks, 26th November 1955, together with a printed copy of Verses Turned “in aid of A Public Subscription Towards the Restoration of the Church of St Katherine, Chiselhampton, Oxon”, with printed signatures of several of the sponsors and an autograph inscription signed “To BiblioMuir from J Betjeman”, 2 pages 4to., with original autograph envelope, together with another Autograph Letter Signed to “Biblio and Mrs Muir” thanking him for sending the “CRL Fletcher’s Guide to Oxford, I can just remember the book when I was a new boy at the Dragon School. (Lyman’s it was called then) & the prejudices of its author I shared then myself ‘KEBLE... as for the buildings, they were perpetrated - there is no other word for it - by Mr Butterfield in 1870’. I like too the OUP wartime format of the book. It is a gloriously forthright anti-town, pro University... liberal, jingo-istic & patronising book. I find I can’t put it down. It recalls my youth in an agonising way. How quiet was Cumnor then & how many lived who remembered Jowett...”, 2 sides 8vo, The Mead, Wantage, Berks, no date, circa
Item Date:
1955
Stock No:
42664
£775
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