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Max Plowman (1883-1941), author. Autograph Leytter Signed "Max Plowman" to Robert Lynd, essayist anfd Irish Nationlist. ALS, on letterhead of Lochnagar, Bycullah Park, Enfield; 17 December 1912, 3pp., 12mo. He thanks him for the 'letter & all its encouragement [...] The book represents rather under a year's work at verse & I only hope I shall not someday have to wish it had never been other than firelight... |
£75.00 | |
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John E. Milholland (1860-1925), American newspaper editor Typed Letter Signed, John E. Milholland to Robert Lynd, essayist. TLS, on letterhead of Meadowmount, Lewis, New York; 19 July 1920. RL's Ireland a Nation 'is not only to my knowledge the best thing you have ever done but one of the very best books that has ever been written on the subject. | I am trying to get a big distribution of it here in America. I shall... |
£180.00 | |
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H. W. Nevinson (1856-1941), journalist and war correspondent. Five Autograph Letters Signed "HWN" [H.W. Nevinson] to Robert Lynd, essayist and Irish Nationalist 5 ALsS, total 8pp., 12mo.One, on letterhead of 4 Downside Crescent, Hampstead; 'Tuesday' [December 1908]. Concerning Nevinson's sacking as a Daily News journalist following his heckling of the Liberal Chancellor Lloyd George at a meeting in December 1908 in which the Daily News editor Gardiner... |
£750.00 | |
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David Low (1891-1963), cartoonist. Christmas Card to Robert and Sylvia Lynd and TLS to Robert Lynd, essayist.. Printed personalised Christmas card, 9 x 11cm, of cartoon by Low depicting an irate Father Christmas announcing 'Gad, sir, something must be done about this Depression. Low must wish the Lynds | A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.' With TLS to RL. 3 Rodborough Road, Golders Green; 23 July... |
£75.00 | |
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Frank Rutter (187-1937), art critic of the Sunday Times. Autograph Letter Signed "Frank Rutter", art critic, to Robert Lynd, essayist. ALS, on letterhead of the City Art Gallery, Leeds; 10 March 1916. He offers to review 'Rebecca West's forthcoming little book on "Henry James"', being 'particularly interested in both author & subject'. Asks for contact details of a relative of Walter Riddall's: 'I lent him before his death... |
£45.00 | |
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Clifford Sharp, (1883-1935), editor of the New Statesman. Five Letters, most signed "C.S." [Clifford Sharp, editor,, New Statesman] to Robert Lynd, essayist. 3 ALsS, ANS and TNS, three on New Statesman letterheads, one on letterhead of 127 Willifield Way, Golders Green; 27 July 1923, 19 June 1924, and 5 January and 23 March 1933, 8pp., 8vo and 12mo.An undated note, on New Statesman letterhead, reads 'These fruits of abstinence are not for me. If you... |
£180.00 | |
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J. B. Priestley (1894-1984), author. 3 TLsS, 6pp., 8vo and 12mo. First, on letterhead of Wood Close, Chinnor Hill, Oxon; 30 January 1925. His wife 'had not had a turn for the worse at the time of the Lamb dinner, as was rumoured.' Thanks RL for his advice regarding osteopathy. Asks if RL has 'returned the contract (for my series)'... |
£150.00 | |
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S. S. Koteliansky (1880-1955), translator and journalist. Autograph Letter Signed to Sylvia Lynd, poet and novelist. ALS, 5 Acacia Road, St John's Wood; 10 Sept. 1935. He writes regarding the plans for the publication of Dorothy Richardson's novel Clear Horizon. |
£150.00 | |
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Lennox Robinson (1886-1958), Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Sylvia Lynd, poet and novelist. 2 ALsS, on letterhead of Cahirmoyle, Ardagh, County Limerick; 25 Feb. [1917?]; from Cahirmoyle; 24 March [1918], in envelope, total 4p., 4to.First: 'I am starting a League of Protest, a League to boost Nice Useless Things (I have a sort of suspicion I come under that head myself) and when... |
£750.00 | |
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Kathleen Hilton Young (1878-1947), sculptor, previously Kathleen, Lady Scott, wife of Robert Falcon Scott of the Antarctic. Autograph Letter Signed to Sylvia Lynd, poet and novelist. ALS, on letterhead of Leinster Corner, Lancaster Gate, London; 20 September 1929, in envelope, 2pp., 8vo, docketed by MG, with note stating that the writer was 'married to Sir Edward Hilton Young, (who broke Olive Heseltine's heart years before & whose nephew, George, broke Sheila's heart in... |
£180.00 |
