BESANT
(Sir Walter, 1836-1901, Novelist, Biographer & Social Reformer)
Typed Letter Signed with autograph alterations, to Miss E. E. Cohen
saying that “it is a long way back to remember a conversation in an omnibus in November 1896 - nearly three years. Oddly enough, however, I do remember the conversation to which you refer that is to say, I remember talking with a friend in an omnibus about Mark Twain’s ‘Joan of Arc’, and I remember expressing the opinion that in his book the character had been treated with an effectiveness and a nobility greater than in other works on the same subject...”, 1 side 8vo., Adam and Charles Black headed paper, The Survey of London, Soho Square, London, 25th July
Item Date:
1899
Stock No:
42721
£60
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BESANT
(Mrs. Annie, 1847-1933, née Wood, Freethinker, later Theosophist, Women’s Rights Activist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr GIMSON
(Sydney Ansell, 1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society) saying that she can “go to Leicester on March 22nd. I have recovered from last Sunday’s work, save for some aching of the limbs but the thing is that I must not run the risk of such exposure. The cold hits my heart, & the risk is too great...”, 1 side 8vo., “Annie Besant” headed paper, 19 Avenue Road, St John’s Wood, 16th June
Item Date:
1891
Stock No:
42666
£375
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BETHAM-EDWARDS
(Matilda, 1836-1919, Novelist, Francophile & Poet)
Autograph Letter Signed to Colonel Lewis,
thanking him for "photos (I fear the bonnet somewhat spoiled effect)", and for "Mrs Sadler's kind letter of introduction", she hopes he and his wife and Miss Lewis "will come & see me & my relation from Brittany, Justin", 3½" x 4½" card black-edged, no place, July 24th, no year, circa
light original blot below flourish in signature, light traces of transparent tabs on side 1 without loss
Item Date:
1885
Stock No:
54665
£45
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BETJEMAN
(Sir John, 1906-1982, Poet Laureate)
Carbon Copy of a Typed Letter Signed to “Dear and Learned Clerk” the copy is addressed to Mrs R. S. Thomas
the copy letter says he is “most grateful for your action over the two-stroke engine, it is now somewhat muffled. The enclosed letter from the wife of that great poet, the Rev. R.S. Thomas, and herself a considerable artist, is I like to hope, alarmist and two of the lamp standards have been taken down for repair...”, with autograph postcript “Copy to Mrs R.S. Can I come & see you? What a good drawing of the lamp-post. Love to Ronald. John B”, 1 side A4, 43 Cloth Fair headed paper, with original typed envelope, 7th March
Item Date:
1972
Stock No:
42043
£275
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BETJEMAN
(Sir John, 1906-1982, Poet Laureate)
Small collection of Autograph Letters to Percy MUIR
(1894-1979, Antiquarian Bookseller, Collector and Bibliographer) and his wife, the first to “Dear Bibliomuir, thanking him for thinking of him. As a matter of fact I like it very much & have seen other places in that process, but not Brighton. As a little token of thanks I enclose this Chiselhampton thing. The money was substantial, so keep it as a souvenir...”, 1 side 8vo., The Mead Wantage, Berks, 26th November 1955, together with a printed copy of Verses Turned “in aid of A Public Subscription Towards the Restoration of the Church of St Katherine, Chiselhampton, Oxon”, with printed signatures of several of the sponsors and an autograph inscription signed “To BiblioMuir from J Betjeman”, 2 pages 4to., with original autograph envelope, together with another Autograph Letter Signed to “Biblio and Mrs Muir” thanking him for sending the “CRL Fletcher’s Guide to Oxford, I can just remember the book when I was a new boy at the Dragon School. (Lyman’s it was called then) & the prejudices of its author I shared then myself ‘KEBLE... as for the buildings, they were perpetrated - there is no other word for it - by Mr Butterfield in 1870’. I like too the OUP wartime format of the book. It is a gloriously forthright anti-town, pro University... liberal, jingo-istic & patronising book. I find I can’t put it down. It recalls my youth in an agonising way. How quiet was Cumnor then & how many lived who remembered Jowett...”, 2 sides 8vo, The Mead, Wantage, Berks, no date, circa
Item Date:
1955
Stock No:
42664
£775
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