METEYARD
(Eliza, 1816-1879, Writer, Journalist, Essayist and Authority on Wedgwood Pottery and its Creator)
Fine Long Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Drysdale
telling her that she had "accomplished my small journey on Friday - both pleasantly and safely - and found my little home bright and cheerful. My poor invalid was however not so well - and had been failing again - for some days previously so that had I remained your guest a little longer - the chance is I should have been sent for. She is but the mere shadow of a shade - no flesh on any of her bones - and our good surgeon has now had her back plaistered [sic] to give it strength and keep the bones from protruding. She however still comes down stairs - though I must shortly house her upstairs like the frailest of hot-house plants. She has already worn your charming gift and highly prizes it. She thanks you heartily ... I do not feel very well myself this morning. This plunge into business and care suits me rather ill after a month's laziness. I hope Dr Lane has returned and is better for his little respite. Present my best love to Mrs Lane ... I thank her for all her courtesies - as I do you my dear Lady Drysdale ... I met Mr Howitt on Saturday at the London Library. He said all were well at Esher ...", 4 sides 8vo., Wildwood, Hampstead, 12th October
Item Date:
1868
Stock No:
41533
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MEYERSTEIN
(E.[dward] H.[arry] W.[illiam], 1889-1952, English Writer and Scholar, writer of the life of Thomas Chatterton)
"Cockadoodledont for a Little Girl" the doggerel by E. H. W. Meyerstein and the Pictures by Peggy Norgate, inscribed and dated on the front free endpaper
"Helen Muir from the writer, April 1941. This for a little girl of four - and, with it, what exceeds all price, A little piece of safe advice: WHEN YOU WANT MORE, CRY OUT FOR MORE.", 8vo., Cecil Palmer, London,
slightly foxed throughout
Item Date:
1941
Stock No:
31053
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MEYERSTEIN
(E.[dward] H.[arry] W.[illiam], 1889-1952, English Writer and Scholar, writer of the life of Thomas Chatterton)
"In Time of War", Poems with an inscription in capital letters,
"The Book of Helen and of David Muir, and may its Lure in time Ensure they both Endure, with Smiles Joy-pure Woes thought past Cure" with the date in a pattern, 1944, 8vo., The Richards Press, London,
Item Date:
1942
Stock No:
31052
£75
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ORIGINAL POEM BY MEYERSTEIN
MEYERSTEIN
(E.[dward] H.[arry] W.[illiam], 1889-1952, English Writer and Scholar, writer of the life of Thomas Chatterton)
Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear President’, Austin LANE POOLE
(1889-1963, Historian, from 1913 Tutor, then Fellow at St John's College, Oxford, President, 1947-1957) saying that he was “shocked and grieved to hear of Miss Lane Poole’s death, and I condole with you on your loss. There are some people of whom one does not think as departing this life, and she was one of them. During the War years I enjoyed her gracious hospitality in Walton Street, and I shall miss her (I know this) when next I attend a Sunday service in Magdalen Chapel. The following lines and this translation, occurred to me quite spontaneously, and I send them as a token of my real regret on a great loss to classical scholarship...” there follows a poem in Latin and. the translation “What her mind knew it gave, and what / It did not know within upgrew / Till it blazed forth with grace most due / Much wept she went; without a spot / Now bides she in a learned plot / A hope, a rose that shines anew!...”, 1 side 4to., 3 Gray’s Inn Place, 29th March 1947
Item Date:
1951
Stock No:
41835
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MEYERSTEIN
(E.[dward] H.[arry] W.[illiam], 1889-1952, English Writer and Scholar, writer of the life of Thomas Chatterton)
Autograph Letter Signed with initials to Barbara Muir
thanking her for her letter and the "New Yorkers ... I have been here a month and though I can't say I like hospital I have been able to read and correct the paged proofs of my novel which went back to Victor Gollancz on Wednesday ... luckily a friend, R. L. Watson was with me when I had the stroke ... he came here in the ambulance with me. I suppose even if one does not drink or lead a wanton life, either with a wife or a mistress, there is a price to be paid for intellectual concentration and certainly I seem to be paying it ...", I side lettercard with autograph address on the verso, Whittington Hospital, 12th July
Item Date:
1951
Stock No:
39545
£75
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