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[Sir Edward Marsh.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Eddie Marsh') to Mrs Strutt, with an Autograph Letter Signed to him from Lady Wimborne ('Alice'), regarding an invitation for Strutt to join the 'CMS [Chamber Music Society]' at Wimborne House.

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Sir Edward Marsh [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] (1872-1953), Cambridge Apostle and associate of Winston Churchill [Alice Katherine Sibell Guest [née Grosvenor], Viscountess Wimborne (1880-1948)]
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Marsh's letter to Strutt: on letterhead of Wimborne House, Arlington Street, St James's, SW1 [London]. 27 October 1937. Wimborne's letter to Marsh: on letterhead of 5 Raymond Buildings, Gray's Inn [London]. 27 October [1937].
£135.00

Married to one of the richest men in England, Lady Wimborne was lover and patron of the young Sir William Walton (1902-1983). She was, according to Stephen Lloyd ('William Walton: Muse of Fire'), 'extremely musical and Wimborne House in London became home to many musical soirées, including the private subscription concerts of the Quartet Society and even a chamber orchestra conducted by Hyam Greenabum'. Both items in very good condition, with light signs of age. ONE: Marsh to Strutt. 2pp., 12mo.

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[Edward Marsh, editor.] Unbound [proof?] sheets of the rare 1923 edition on fine paper of 'Georgian Poetry 1913-1915'

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Edward Marsh [Sir Edward Howard Marsh (1872-1953)], editor of 'Georgian Poetry' [Harold Monro (1879-1932), proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop, London; Rupert Brooke; Walter de la Mare; D. H. Lawrence]
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The Poetry Bookshop, 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. London W.C. 1923. [Printed by W. H. SMITH & SON, The Arden Press, Stamford Street, London, S.E.1.]
£1,250.00

[10] + 244 + [2]pp., 8vo, consisting of sixteen loose signatures, unstitched and unbound, wrapped in a piece of green paper on which is written in pencil 'Group 2 | Special'. Very good, on lightly-aged 'Holbein' wove paper. Each signature with uncut edges, and with only the first four of the eight leaves opened.

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['Richard Marsh' [Richard Bernard Heldmann], Victorian supernatural author.] Four Autograph Letters Signed (all 'Richard Marsh') to 'A. Anderson Esq.', regarding term and payment for contributions to his magazine, including 'Aunt Jane's Jalap'.

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'Richard Marsh' [Richard Bernard Heldmann] (1857-1915), popular English author, best-known for his supernatural thriller 'The Beetle' (1897)
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The first two on letterheads of Three Bridges, Sussex; the last two from The Uplands, Queen's Road, Shanklin. 8 October 1908; and 16 February, and 1 and 3 September 1909.
£120.00

All four items in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. ONE (8 October 1908): 'Although I am only asking what I am offered elsewhere I am willing to meet you, & to accept Twenty five Guineas for the second serial use of the two stories, - on the understanding that the transaction is for prompt cash.' TWO (16 February 1909): His terms are fifteen guineas, cash.

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Typed Note Signed ('E Marsh') by Winston Churchill's private secretary Edward Marsh to Major Thomas King.

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Sir Edward Marsh [Sir Edward Howard Marsh] (1872-1953), British author and civil servant, patron of the Georgian school of poets, and Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, 1905-1915
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17 November 1915; on letterhead of 19 Abingdon Street, Westminster.
£35.00
Edward Marsh

16mo, 1 p. Text clear and complete. On aged, creased paper with pinholes. 'Mr Churchill asks me to thank you very much for your kind letter of yesterday, which he has read with grerat pleasure.'

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Castle Avon. By the author of "Emilia Wyndham," "Mordaunt Hall," etc. etc.

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Anon. [Anne Marsh (later Anne Marsh-Caldwell) (1791-1874)]
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London: Thomas Hodgson, 13, Paternoster-row. [Woodfall and Kinder, Printers, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London.] [1855]
£56.00

12mo, 352 pp. In contemporary brown calf half-binding, with marbled boards and grey endpapers. Loose and foxed in worn binding.

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