Autograph Letter Signed from William Archer to an unnamed correspondent, giving conditions for the republication of his poem 'In Praise of Puns', originally published in Henry James Byron's 'Mirth'.
Author:
William Archer (1856-1924), Scottish literary critic and journalist, friend of George Bernard Shaw and supporter of Ibsen [Henry James Byron (1835-1884), English playwright]
Publication details:
On letterhead of the National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, SW [London]. 14 March 1908.
£45.00
SKU: 13189
2pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. A pencil footnote states that the poem referred to is 'In Praise of Puns' (subtitled on that occasion 'Paronomasiarum Laudatio'), published in the magazine 'Mirth', edited by H. J. Byron, 1878, p.115. Archer has no objection to the poem being reprinted, 'on one or other of two conditions: that you either omit my name (and any description pointing to me), or give the date of their original publication, and the name of the magazine (Mirth was it not?) in which they appeared. In either case, please omit the Latin sub-title.'