WEST
(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘Rebecca W.’ to Diana MARR-JOHNSON
(1908-2007, Social Advocate, Novelist and Playwright, niece of Somerset Maugham), saying she has “often wanted to get in touch with you. But I have wasted the last few years in winding up my husband’s estate, which has nearly driven me mad, and all my married life our affairs have been handed over punctiliously to a firm of accountants, who have now handed it back to me in the state of a piece of knitting played with by a litter of kittens. As I picked up the stitches I have had more and. more trouble with. my eyes and so. life has been a shambles. I’ve got my eyes as right as I can and tried to get the knitting on the needles again, and I would like to see you!... Thank you for your book and your kind lunch. (That was a lovely party Sarah and Marjorie gave for me! And I saw so many people lie you that I had been barred off from for so long). I will read your book with pleasure... About Barbara - she is very glad of company if one can sacrifice oneself for an hour or two. She is very old now, and very stiff... and very distraught. But she is sweet and affectionate with her bitchiness and it is all very sad...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 48 Kingston House North, Prince’s Gate, S.W.7., 9th February
Item Date:
1973
Stock No:
41929
£275
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WEST
(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine Typed Letter Signed ‘Rebecca West’ to Mr Russell
saying that “on returning here after a holiday in France I have found a letter from you concerning a volume of tributes to Ruth Pitter dated 3.9.68. I have no recollection of having seen it before, and I do not think you can have received an answer. I would just like to explain to you that just about that time my husband was taken gravely ill, and had to go into hospital, where he died in November. I would not wish you to think that my failure to answer you was due to any discourtesy or any failure to recognise the genius of Ruth Pitter. Since then I have moved from my country house, and my papers and correspondence have been swept into hopeless disorder, and I really was powerless to prevent it. I have not seen the volume and will look forward to reading it...”, 1 side 4to., 48 Kingston House North, Prince’s Gate, 5th August
Item Date:
1969
Stock No:
41938
£275
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WEYMAN
(Stanley, 1855-1928, Novelist)
Signature and date on headed notepaper, Plƒs Llanrhydd, Ruthin, N. Wales, 24th October
Item Date:
1905
Stock No:
8869
£10
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WHEATLEY
(Dennis, 1897-1977, Novelist)
Typed Letter Signed to A. Nelson Taylor
thanking him for his letter and saying it “is always a pleasure to hear from readers who enjoy my books and especially from one who, like you, writes so enthusiastically of them. I am very grateful for the stamps you sent me, and appreciate your gesture...”, 1 side 4to., 60 Cadogan Square, London headed paper, 6th May
Item Date:
1974
Stock No:
42167
£75
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WHITTIER
(John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, American Quaker Poet and Abolitionist)
Autograph Note Signed to William Self Weeks (of Clitheroe, Lancashire),
saying he respectfully complies "with thy request and am truly thy friend", 1 side 8vo and conjugate blank, Oak Knoll, Danvers, Mass., 19th 1st month (January)
Item Date:
1884
Stock No:
50622
£375
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