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[ Sinclair Beiles, South African beat poet. ] Typed Letter Signed ('Sinclair') to 'Dear Emperor of France & Asturias' (David de Keyser?), with title-page only of play 'Mort à la Campagne | Une comédie en trois actes | de SINCLAIR BEILES'.

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Sinclair Beiles (1930-2000), South African beat poet, associate of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin and pioneer of the 'cut-up' technique [ David de Keyser (b.1927), English actor ]
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Letter: on 'Necotex' letterhead, Amsterdam, Holland; 2 April 1970. Title-page of play: without date or place. ('Tout renseignements | David de Keyser, Ltd. | 77, Dean Street 77 | London W.1'.
£220.00

Letter: 1p., 8vo. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. 34 lines of text. A playful (stoned?) communication. He thanks him for 'giving me the Sahara right up to the North African Coast', and explains his plans for making the area 'fertile by piping into it water from the Mediterranean'. He asks him to forward 'photocopies of this letter' to Alec Natas ('a very powerful electrician'), and to Linda Talbot. There are also references to 'Marion', Ivan Katzen, 'Lord Levy' and 'the Imperial Dentist, Sol Philips'.

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Three Autograph Letters Signed (all 'Terrick Williams'): two to John Littlejohns and one to Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd.

Author: 
Terrick Williams [Terrick John Williams] (1860-1936), English landscape painter [John Littlejohns]
Publication details: 
First Letter (to Littlejohns): 15 June 1929. Second Letter (to [Littlejohns]): 20 December 1930. Third Letter (to Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons): 14 February 1931. All three on letterhead of 89, Gunterstone Road, W. Kensington, W14 [London].
£150.00

All three items concern Littlejohns' 'British Watercolour Painting and Painters of Today' (London: Pitman, 1931)'. First Letter: 12mo, 3 pp. 43 lines. Text clear and entire. On two leaves attached to one another in a corner by a pin. Good, on lightly-creased paper. Interesting and informative letter concerning 'two watercolours' which Williams would 'like to be 'reproduced in [Littlejohn's] work on water colours'. Gives details of the titles of the works and the name and address of the owner, 'who has consented to send them'.

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