SITWELL
(Sir Osbert, 1892-1969, Writer)
Typed Letter Signed to Mrs Allen,
saying "How very kind of you to write to me ... I remember well the Committee days. Eckington is little altered as yet ...", 1 side 8vo, Renishaw Hall, near Sheffield, 22nd September
a few very light creases in blank edges
Item Date:
1958
Stock No:
56501
£85
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SITWELL
(Sir Sacheverell, 1897-1980, Poet and Writer on the Arts, from 1969 6th Baronet)
Autograph Letter Signed to A. Nelson Taylor
(b. 1900, of Netherton, near Huddersfield), saying he is "very touched and pleased ... You have no idea what encouragement is given by a letter of this sort - and I feel all my labours and troubles have not been in vain", adding "It would seem that you are three years younger than I am! How hateful it is! but I am still at work - and helped by your kindness", with a P.S., "I see we are both Yorkshiremen! I was born, and lived a lot of the time, at Scarborough", 1 side oblong 8vo, Weston Hall, Towcester, Northamptonshire, 26th November
Item Date:
1973
Stock No:
56513
£125
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MANUSCRIPT COPY OF HER POEM "COLONEL FANTOCK" INSCRIBED TO HER BROTHERS
SITWELL
(Dame Edith, 1887-1964, Poet)
Fine autograph manuscript signed of her poem headed "Colonel Fantock (To Osbert and Sacheverel)"
starting "Thus spoke the lady underneath the Trees / I was a member of a family / Whose legend was of hunting (all the rare / and unattainable brightness of the air) ..." and continuing almost exactly as the printed version but with a couple of small variations, 4 sides closely written 8vo., no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1959
Stock No:
40561
£1250
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SITWELL ON 'FACADE'
SITWELL
(Dame Edith, 1887-1964, Poet)
Fine Autograph letter signed in full to Miss Cooper
saying that she is "not sure to which of Dr Walton's works you are referring but I think it may be the orchestral suite 'Facade' the whole of which (it has many numbers) is adapted from a joint work of Dr Walton's and mine. This, also called 'Facade' consisted of poems of mine recited by a speaker, with a small orchestra, the music being, of course, Dr Walton's. The poems in question ... appear in my Collected Poems, not in the order in which they appear in Dr Walton's work ..." she then explains how they differ, she continues that she is "not very familiar with the Suite, as she has not heard it for a long time ...", when she has listed all the poems in the suite she goes on that she thinks "these all come to the suite. In my case, they did to the original work, from which the Suite was taken. We did a good many other ... a Scotch Rhapsody and a Tarentella which I have not reprinted ..." and she says the works can by got from the OUP, 2 sides 4to., Renishaw Hall, 5th January
paperclip mark at the head not affecting the text
Item Date:
1944
Stock No:
38335
£375
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SKEAT
(Walter William, 1835-1912, Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge)
Autograph Letter in the third person to Sir William Treloar, Lord Mayor,
accepting for 25th May, 1 side 8vo., 2 Salisbury Villas, Cambridge, 16th April
Item Date:
1907
Stock No:
50612
£15
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