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Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), author, poet and translator, whose liason with Oscar Wilde brought about the latter's downfall [Sylvia Lynd (1888-1952), Anglo-Irish poet, wife of the essayist Robert Lynd] 1p., 4to. In fair condition, on lightly-aged paper. Apparently unpublished. He complains of Lynd's 'very ill-natured review of my "Autobiograp[hy] [...] She makes the ridiculous statement that "a child" at a public school is "at most on speaking terms with five percent of his contemporaries".... |
£120.00 | |
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[Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company Limited; Shaftesbury Park Estate, Battersea; Victorian social Housing in London; George Glyn, 2nd Baron Wolverton; George Kinnaird, 9th Lord Kinnaird] Both items in good condition, lightly aged, and both laid out in the customary fashion, with tax stamps and embossments. ONE: On three vellum skins. Endorsed, with signatures of various Company officials, on reverse of third skin: 'The Artizans Labourers and General Dwellings Company Limited to... |
£500.00 | |
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'G. F.' [Viola Garvin (1898-1969), journalist; Sylvia Lynd (1888-1952), Anglo-Irish poet, wife of the essayist Robert Lynd (1879-1949); Gerald Gould (1885-1936), reviewer with the Observer, London] 1p., 4to. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. She thanks Lynd for 'one of the nicest novel articles we have had in Gerald's absence', and asks her to 'be an angel, and do something else for Viola, who is vanishing tomorrow for four or five weeks', in reviewing 'the Somerset Maugham book... |
£40.00 | |
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Sir J. C. Squire (1884-1958), editor of the London Mercury. [J.C. Squire] 7 ALsS and 1 TLS to Robert Lynd, mainly editorial matters. 7 ALsS and 1 TLS, three on letterheads of the London Mercury, and two on letterheads of the New Statesman; only three fully dated: 13 November 1917, 16 November 1924 and 27 November 1925, 12pp., 8vo and 12mo. Mostly on editorial matters. The letter of 13 November 1917, on New Statesman... |
£250.00 | |
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Sir Algernon Methuen [né Stedman] (1856-1924), publisher. [Methuen] Autograph Letter Signed to Robert Lynd, author. ALS, on letterhead of New Place, Haslemere, Surrey; 3 April 1922, 2pp., 12mo, good condition. Regarding his Anthology of Modern Verse (1922), to which RL wrote the introduction. 'I can see at once that some of your suggestions I shall accept but some I jib at for various reasons [...] 2)... |
£95.00 | |
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Louis Francis Salzman (1878-1971), British economic historian. [Salzmann] Autograph Letter Signed to Robert Lynd. ALS, 14 Brookside, Cambridge; 19 August [1928], 2pp., 12mo, good condition. Written on returning the proofs of two articles. 'I see you have cut out my proof of the early intrusion of the Friar Tuck element into the Robin Hood cycle: - the only piece of information in the article which a student... |
£80.00 | |
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S. K. Ratcliffe (1868-1958), journalist and lecturer [S.K. Ratcliffe] Two Typed Letters Signed to Robert Lynd, author. 2 TLsS, 4pp., 8vo, good condition. First, on letterhead of Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; 12 January 1923. He 'ran into Plunkett and Karl Walter' in Washington a few days before, and he is 'delighted to hear that the funds are available [for the relaunch of the Irish Statesman], and... |
£80.00 | |
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John A. Hobson (1858-1940), economist. [Hobson, economist] Autograph Note Signed to Robert Lynd, author. ALS, on letterhead of 3 Gayton Crescent, Hampstead; 25 April 1917, one page, 12mo, minor shading not affecting text. He is enclosing 'a little book written by my wife' (Ideals True and False by Florence Edgar Hobson), another copy of which has been sent to the Daily News, and he wonders 'if it... |
£80.00 | |
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Jonathan Cape (1879-1960), London publisher. [Jonathan Cape]Three Typed Letters Signed to Robert Lynd, author. 3 TLsS, all on letterheads of 30 Bedford Square (two from Jonathan Cape Limited); 3 December 1924, 4 May 1929; 28 November 1946, totla 4pp., 4to, good condition. First, undertaking to publish in the Times Literary Supplement 'an expression of regret or apology' for an article by a 'contributor'... |
£120.00 | |
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Grant Richards (1872-1948), publisher. [Grant Richards] Two Typed Letters Signed to Robert Lynd, author. 2 TLsS, 3pp., 8vo and 12mo, latter damaged with loss of heading. First, on his publisher's letterhead, 8 St Martin's Street, Leicester Square; 1 April 1921. 'Mr. Pinker [RL's agent] has reminded me - and I did not want reminding - how shockingly I seem to have behaved over "The Pleasures of... |
£150.00 |
