SITWELL
(Sir Osbert Sacheverell, 1892-1969, Poet & Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to "Dearest Violet",
the early keyboard player Violet Gordon Woodhouse (1871-1948, née Glynne), saying "You don't mind the suggested alteration for lunch (Saturday) I hope? ... I found I'd promised to lunch at Kensington Palace with Princess Alice and didn't dare to put her off. And, anyhow, it means seeing you a day earlier!", ending with "Love to Gordon", (Woodhouse, 1870-1951, her husband), "and Bill", (the Hon. William Barrington, 1873-1960, from 1933 10th Viscount), the survivors of her famous ménage à cinq, 2 sides 8vo., Trent, New Barnet, (the home of Sir Philip Sassoon), 'Saturday' no date, circa
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
55499
£125
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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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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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