BINYON

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Autograph Letter Signed from the poet Laurence Binyon to 'Miss [Alice] Warrender', regarding his duties as one of the judges of the 1925 Hawthornden Prize, with reference to Aldous Huxley, J. R. Ackerley and Sean O'Casey.

Author: 
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), English poet [Alice Helen Warrender (1857-1947), founder in 1919 of the Hawthornden Prize]
Publication details: 
On letterhead of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. 15 December [1925].
£95.00

2pp., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Docketed in a neat hand at head of second page. Binyon writes that he cannot be with her on the Friday, as he has to 'go down to Winchester on business. And I am so driven I don't know where to turn.' He has 'had Huxley's Barren Leaves in the house for days', but hasn't 'had one moment to look at it'. He has 'managed to read [J. R.

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