Three autograph notes signed, and one autograph postcard initialled, to Sir Robert Hudson, political organiser (see DNB, and obviously a Johnsonian.

Scholar (esp. Johnson and Austen studies) and University Publisher, 1881-1960, see DNB. Total 3 pages (excl. pc), 8vo and 4to. Subjects include (with quotations): writing on a train; misreading "The cup of your patience (p.29) as the CROP"; significant postscript, a nunc dimittis, "I have not lived in vain - I have negotiated the purchase of the Brit. Museum of all that survives of the MS. of Persuasion [underlined]"; (he obviously sends scripts to Hudson) "I have no present intention of printing this . . . It is possible [underlined] (I think very unlikely) that the Eng. [An?] might want to print it in a pamphlet." In the postcard he mentions buying "a very rare Goldsmith 'item', and made an emendation in Boswell. - So let it rain if it will." WITH: Autograph Note Signed "R.W. Chapman" to The Rev. Canon Price, 6 March 1928, 9 Park Town, Oxford, saying "Concession & rescue [both underlined] are right. Johnson often uses the open e, . . ." All these letters were found in Robert Arundell Hudson's copy of "The Portrait of a Scholar" (1920), with his bookplate, cover sunned and spine label damaged. This book accompanies the letters.