ORIGINAL UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED
BLUNDEN
(Edmund, 1896-1974, Poet & Critic)
Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Thomas Brumbough in America,
thanking him for his letter and hoping "that literary interests will lighten the burden of army life as long as that is your portion. For my part I have (including military duties) rather a lot to do, and you will pardon a short letter from a weary pen, perhaps the few lines appended will meet your wish to have something in the way of an autograph ...", together with a complete short poem signed titled 'The Lost Name', starting "No ship perhaps again will ever bear / That fatal name / Which at the christening challenged everywhere / Seafaring fame / But was to see calamity so vast / Multiplied so / That times may quite forget that wreck of the past / No one would know / And under her grey name a proud new ship / May yet advance / Thronged with young faces brilliant for the trip / God guard the dance!", 1 side 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 12 Woodstock Close, Oxford, 1st December
Item Date:
1943
Stock No:
39466
£375
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BLUNDEN ON HARRIET SHELLEY
BLUNDEN
(Edmund, 1896-1974, Poet & Critic)
Exceptional Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Catherine Maclean
saying that it was "exceedingly kind of you to write about the lecture on M. Lamb. At about 5 minutes before it was to begin I doubted if I should get to it myself, for a fog descended on the Euston region as dense as I ever knew and the Hall seemed undiscoverable. i hope you are past the heavy cold which at least saved you from that dilemma. And best thanks for your generous reception of Shelley(will all errors and errata.) I hope to improve the book one day, having in particular much curious information to add. Incidentally I think it certain that Harriet Shelley only left her father's house right at the end, and that the failure of a letter from her to reach Mme de Boinville was the immediate reason for her unhappy decision. Maybe the whole affair was more deeply operant in Shelley's later life, even to the end, than I was thinking when the book was written ..." ending about a "merry pamphlet Blackwood's prose and verse on the Londoners would make! the nimble villains ...", 1 side 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 'The Times' headed paper, Printing House Square, 16th March
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
39467
£325
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BLYTON
(Enid Mary, 1897-1968, Children's author, Creator of Noddy)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'Enid Blyton' to Miss Olive Clarke
of the Little Green Lane School in Birmingham, thanking her for her letter and saying she is glad "the Aquarium is progressing ..." sending her the details of Wortley National school which "has been kind enough to offer to send flowers or nature specimens to a Town school. The teacher wrote such a nice letter & I think it would be lovely if your school & hers could both benefit by the linking up. I have told her that you will pay postage - or repay her kindness in some way ... but that you will doubtless arrange between you ....", she ends by saying that she is "quite touched by your P.S. How nice of the old boys & girls to ask about me. You must tell them that I often think of my old friends and I always wish them the best of luck when they go out in the world! ...." and sends her love to her current pupils, with a postscript that she thinks "Wortley's children would love to have letters from your children", also included is a postcard photo of several schoolchildren annotated on the verso with their names and "Love from Wortley", 2 sides 4to., with original autograph envelope, Old Thatch, Bourne End, Bucks, 16th March
Item Date:
1933
Stock No:
39121
£475
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BLYTON
(Enid Mary, 1897-1968, Children's author, Creator of Noddy)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'Enid Blyton' to Miss Clarke
thanking her for her "kind & interesting letter. I am so delighted to hear of the excellent result you report. I have had many other letters repeating the same thing - in fact one teacher wrote to say that she & the rest of the staff (town school) had had the use of the school-house belonging to the teacher of the country school I had put her in touch with, for the Summer holidays, & had had a glorious time in the country. I would like to see the idea extended, but as I cannot myself undertake such a colossal personal correspondence as would be involved if the idea were properly worked out I wish T.W. would take it up. If you have time (I know what busy people teachers are!) would you write to the Editor of T.W. to tell him what you have told me and say what a boon an extension of the idea would be? Editors take such a lot of notice of their readers & are so glad to have personal letters! I really do think thousands of town schools would be glad to make friends with country schools ..", she then sends the address of a supplier of a "cheap aquarium ... He has them from about 2/- upwards. A good size is 3/6. Postage and packing are extra. ... Give my love to the children and tell them Bobs is almost too excited to send them barks - because his books have come today! He will tell the children about them next week. Dilly sends hugs & I send you my best wishes and thanks ...", 2 sides 4to., Old Thatch, Bourne End, Bucks, 21st September
Item Date:
1933
Stock No:
39185
£375
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BOLITHO
(Hector, 1898-1974, New Zealand Biographer & Travel Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Miss Cond,
saying that he is pleased that she "liked 'Combat Report' No book I have ever written has given me more pleasure ...", 1 side 8vo, R.A.F., Northwood Middlesex, 27th September no year.,
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
5167
£15
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