[Edward Gordon Craig.] Four Autograph Letters (two signed 'Edward Craig' and two unsigned) and one Autograph Note Signed ('EGC') to Irish poet Sylvia Lynd, an intimate and affectionate correspondence in his calligraphic hand.

Five items totalling 11pp., 8vo. All in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. ONE: ALS, on letterhead of the Hotel Angleterre, Copenhagen; [22 Dec.1926]. Signed 'Edward Craig'. 4pp., 8vo. Bifolium. 'I am at work for the Royal Theatre [...] I am enjoying Stagemanaging the actors designing the scenes & costumes - planning the kind of music & although not difficult you'd be surprised how the quantity of the work puzzles me how to cope with it. | You & your husband are writers - lucky. So fine an art & practised by you both so awfully well.' TWO: ALS, on letterhead of Via della Costa di Serretto 17, Genova, Italy; 10 March 1927. Signed 'Edward Craig' and 'EGC'. 2pp., 8vo. He enjoyed 'the hour at your house' and it he was so pleased to see 'my oldest woodcut of the musketeers (that excessively rare one) hanging on your wall that I want to see my youngest woodcut side by side with it - to which end I send you my latest - I pack him inside a copy of "The Mask"'. THREE: 2pp., 8vo. Unsigned AL, on Via della Costa letterhead; 21 Sept. 1929. 2pp., 8vo. Asking 'what you think Mr Methuen [publisher] would say if you tactfully said what Ive [sic] said to you in Lynd language & Sylviaish sparkle', regarding his planned biography of Henry Irving. 'Who will not be frightened because St John Ervine with all Whitehall (court) behind him tells him "Irving was a fool" & Craig a disaster to the stage'. FOUR: Unsigned AL, on Via della Costa letterhead; 16 Nov. 1934. 1p., 8vo. He is offering her 'a letter' for 'the mulberry bush & for the inscription of it', and asks her to 'enquire about the plays & other books of Halcott Glover & talk a bit of them & him - / He lies dangerously ill - was some months in Barts - never makes a penny - but how he has tried - & what a life!!' FIVE: ANS, 'as from 85 rue Ampere, Paris, 17e', 6 Oct. 1949. 'Dear Sylvia - | - and all your girls, now grown so big - | - with Love from EGC'.