MEYERSTEIN
(E.[dward] H.[arry] W.[illiam], 1889-1952, English Writer and Scholar, writer of the life of Thomas Chatterton)
Pair of Typed Letters Signed with autograph corrections to Percy and Barbara Muir
the first thanking them for their hospitality and saying that he is "sure you did everything you could and of course it is interesting to me, as a comparatively unknown man, to watch big business at close quarters, and when I saw you waving your last contract (Barbara) before the astonished visitors and you (Percy) greeting the miracle play with that dignified absence of comment that I have learnt to associate with Oxford & Cambridge intelligentsia I saw exactly how things would be. Well, one has to live, and as long as one lives for oneself one must, I suppose, try to combine the bray of the poet and the song of the rentier ... One may have money at the bank and yet die of starvation. That is the lesson of 1947. Don't think me bitter. I have to talk like this, for I have no happiness except in lonely creative struggles (which are not all beer and skittles - though thank God there are no wife and brats clamouring for the results of work that pays ... Casual ruthlessness combined with absence of mind are grand assets for the battle of life, but some of us lack them .. It will be long before I forget standing on the Takeley road outside your gate in the night air, invited to listen to 'our nightingales' ...", 1 side A4, together with a "copy of my reply" to Edward answering what was evidently some argument with a fellow guest over the Miracle play and his contract "I 'm sorry the sight of my contract upset you. I hadn't realised that there was anything indecent about a contract as such ...I am sincerely sorry that you have no happiness except in 'lonely creative struggles' ... Well, there it is! We have both liked having you to stay here and enjoyed our talks. And I, for my part, very much enjoyed hearing you read your work - on this last visit your Miracle Play. But is seems you have had less enjoyment ...", 1 side A4 and finally he writes to Barbara that he is "glad I wrote so ingenuously to you since my letter has provoked so ingenuous a reply. I am glad that you can say 'We both liked having you to stay here', and I hope I am a little wiser than I was after trying with however little success, to co-operate in your arduous duties as hostess ... Your children (especially Helen) grow more like you every day ...", 1 side oblong 8vo., 3 Gray's Inn Place, W.C., 28th and 29th May
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
39544
£125
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MEYNELL
(Alice, née Thomson, 1847-1922, English Poet and Essayist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that she "hardly knows how to tell you that your correspondent is right. 'The Shepherdess' is an ideal young woman and not a child. One would not call a child a lady'. However the sonnet 'your own fair youth' is (dramatically) supposed to be addressed to a young women & a lover ..." she continues that she "found your book delightful and am very reluctant to put these things right ...", 2 sides 8vo., Greatham, Pulborough, Sussex, 14th August no year
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0
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39274
£125
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MEYNELL
(Wilfred, 1852-1948, Writer and Journalist)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Revd. Father',
thanking him "for the true pleasure of your note", 1 side 8vo., 2a Granville Place, Portman Square, W., Tuesday no date, c.
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
17942
£20
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MEYNELL
(Alice, née Thomson, 1847-1922, English Poet and Essayist & Suffragist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Madam", Rita Francis MOSSCOCKLE
(née Harriet Francis Sparrow, died 1943, Poet, Author of the Golden Quest) thanking her for her "kind thought of me in sending me your poems. I had already seen them and admired (if you will pardon the personality) the portrait, as well as the text. I am greatly interested in the subject of your poems and in their spirit and energy. You have put the result of much thought into the Golden Quest. Let me congratulate me from my heart upon the great step you have taken ..." with a postscript that her "husband wishes me to tell you that he had the pleasure of writing a notice of your book in the Tablet ...", 4 sides sm. 8vo., 2a Granville Place, Portman Square, 18th March no year but circa
Item Date:
1890
Stock No:
41535
£150
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MEYNELL
(Viola, 1885-1956, Writer, Novelist and Poet)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Sir Ronald' (STORRS )
(Sir Ronald Henry Amherst, 1881-1955, Near Eastern Expert and Governor) telling him that "so much of Francis Thompson's handwriting is in pencil, & so much of it unsigned, that a letter in ink, & with the signature, seems the best thing to send you. The article by my mother which it refers to is one called 'At Monastery Gates' which was reprinted in The Spirit of Place in 1896. It was written after she & my father had visited Francis Thompson at the monastery (Franciscan) at Pantasaph. I cannot convey to you - & you can never find out for yourself - how pleasant it is to sit next to you at luncheon. And thank you again for your book. I didn't realise it was inscribed until I opened it in the train ... to my great pleasure ...", 1 side 8vo., Greatham, Pulborough headed paper, 8th July
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
40886
£75
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