MITCHISON
(Naomi, b.1897, Novelist)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Mr Harding Edgar,
apologizing for not answering, "but owing to no cook and no secretary have had my hands full", she goes on to say that she hasn't had the "time to look for letters and I think I'd have to consult Mrs Lewis, but what I have now got is a notebook with the complete first draft of a book from beginning to end. It is a frightful nuisance working like this, and I can't think how any serious writer does!", 1 side 8vo, 2 Harcourt Buildings, 29th, n.y.,
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29387
£75
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist & Dramatist)
Brief Autograph Letter signed to Mrs Acton TINDAL
(Henrietta Euphemia Harrison, 1817-1879) Poet and Novelist) saying “Thank you my beloved friend! Be assured that you have been amongst the blessings of my existence - May God bless you all! Ever your affectionate...”, 1 side sm. 8vo.,with original autograph envelope, with a pencil annotation “A letter very dear to me!”, Swallowfield, Monday, no date but postmarked 23rd February
Item Date:
1854
Stock No:
41544
£125
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to B. B. Thatcher
saying that she has "read the greater part of Mrs Hale's Volumes & find them as you represented full of good feelings & good sense. Except a touch of protestant bigotry in the Catholic convert & a little too much operation of American Freedom, which is so admitted a matter that it does not require constant talking about. There is nothing which any one can find fault with. I only hope you may find the London Publisher's approbation as ready as mine. Forgive all my ... in yesterday's packet. I keep, as an authoress, clear of Politics & of all disputable points ...", 1 side 4to., no place, no date
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Stock No:
41205
£175
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Bennett
saying that she "had feared dear Mr Bennett that the advancing beacon's shortening days would prevent your excursion by the side of the Thames. I should have regretted it more had not my health continued so bad as to diminish my pleasure in seeing more friends whose society used to give me the most gratification. Last week during four successive days four sets of persons came to see me - such persons as the great Painter John Lucas, William Wood the Member for Oxford, the most distinguished of the new members in the house & the most charming person in conversation that I have ever known - & two other sets less publicly known but equally distinguished for talent - & great as the pleasure was it has so entirely exhausted & prostrated me that my eminent medical attendant has told my maid to let nobody in - & although that will of course not be acted upon to the letter the direction yet shows sufficiently what he thinks of the state of my health & my inability to receive any visits. The Talfourd family are coming to stay with a friend of mine 4 miles off next week. I suppose that I shall hardly be able to see them although invited for every day. I send you your share of a packet from American which I received the other day. Send me back Mr Field's letter please - He is very kind to us both - & you could not have a better introduction to the American Public. I think I told you how superb a man he was - certainly the handsomest I ever beheld. They praise the beauty of the American Women - but I have never seen one who would not look withered & faded by the side of a a pretty young English woman - of Mrs Bennett - for example - Make my best regards to her ...", 2 sides sm. 8vo., no place, no date, together with a copy (probably by Bennett) of the letter from James T. FIELDS to Mitfordthat is referred to saying "for the poems of Mr Bennett enclosed in your letter pray accept my thanks. I think I am doing something occasionally to make him acquaintances this side the water - I have already published the sonnet to Keats in one of our Magazines from which it has travelled the country through. Bryant copied it not long ago into his Journal the Evening Post & Willis likewise endorsed its beauty by a similar compliment ...", 1 side 8vo., Boston, 26th July
Item Date:
1848
Stock No:
41206
£275
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs BROWNING,
(Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861, Poet and wife of Robert) saying that she "does indeed rejoice, my very dear friend at the exceedingly pleasant manner in which the book ... is being noticed in the papers - It may do good - you must not think me unkind if it be some time before I can convey the copies in my hands & those coming to me to their destined owners. Unluckily every one lives beyond a walk & I have no means of getting them to the different persons except by taking them myself - since you left me I have had a severe attack of neuralgia pain in the face - which is almost always brought on by driving in the winter in an open carriage - so that I have been obliged to give up going anywhere beyond a walk for the present - indeed in the winter I never do get into the pony chaise without suffering severely - However I will continue to take them as soon as I can - & real difference there is none between an immediate delivery & a delay which I should of course explain as being caused by myself & not by you - That first volume of Mrs Browning must be as heavy as lead - & I should fear would go far to weigh down the ... portions of her poems - odd sort of criticisms the Leader has - I see Mr Home's Duchess of Malfi has stopped - but hard as the construction of Webster is his own is a million times worse - with Webster's five bits. I see that the Smuggler by James is published in the Parlor Library - let me have that please dear friend. Tom Cringle's Log if I have not got it which your bookseller will know & any ore of James's as they come out - love to the Mrs Bennetts ...", 4 sides sm. 8vo., no place, no date, together with an engraving of Mitford from the drawing by F. R. Say, 9½" x 7"
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Stock No:
41207
£675
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