BUSH
(Douglas, 1896-1983, Professor of English at Harvard, 1936-1966, critic and literary historian)
Typed letter signed to historian Geoffrey F.A. Best, b. 1928,
saying "We were both right and wrong. Johnson did make the remark, but the anecdote is in Mrs. Piozzi, not in Boswell", quoting from Bush's own edition the question and Johnson's angry reply, advising "no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding", Bush adds "There is more to the tale, about Johnson's apparent regret for his outburst", 1 side 7" x 6", 3 Clement Circle, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts, 28th October
Item Date:
1954
Stock No:
53473
£30
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BUTLER
(Agnata Frances, née Ramsay, 1867-1931, Classical Scholar, second wife, 1888, of Henry Montagu Butler, 1833-1918, from 1886 Master of Trinity, Cambridge)
Autograph Letter Signed, to Miss Patteson,
sister of John Coleridge Patteson, (1827-1871, first Bishop of Melanesia, martyr), she is "looking forward very much to seeing you and the Coleridge party next Saturday" and hopes "you will not choose a later time than the 4.32 from Liverpool street. If ... earlier ... so much the better", the "cold & gloomy" weather is "a great contrast ... to Mürren when we saw you last" and hoping for "bright days while you are here", 3 sides 8vo., Trinity Lodge, Cambridge, 23rd October
Item Date:
1888
Stock No:
55420
£60
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BYATT
(Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, née Drabble, 1936-2023, Novelist, Poet and Booker Prize winner under the name A. S. Byatt, sister of Margaret Drabble)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Blackmore
thanking him for his letter and saying he “should very much like to talk to the University of Sussex Literary Society... I seem to have got into rather a panic trying to organise next term’s teaching, and various other things, which ought to be sorted out by the second half of next term. What I shd ideally like to talk about is structural problems in modern novels - symbols & realism & length - & illustrate it out of the things that have gone wrong in my own - but not talklng just about them. Would that sort of thing be all right?...”, 1 side 4to., 33 Ridgmount Gardens, 12th September
Item Date:
1967
Stock No:
42665
£95
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BYATT
(Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, née Drabble, born 1936, Novelist, Poet and Booker Prize winner under the name A. S. Byatt, sister of Margaret Drabble)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Blackmore
thanking him for his letter and saying he is "looking forward to coming to Brighton ... I look forward to seeing you on the station. I've got a cream coloured coat with black and brown checks on it and a large black brief case ...", 1 side 4to., 41 Hanover Gardens, 16th February
Item Date:
1968
Stock No:
39811
£75
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BYRON
(Anne Isabella Noel, née Millbanke, 1792-1860, 11th Baroness Wentworth and Baroness Byron, wife of Lord Byron)
Formal Autograph Letter in the third person
presenting “her compliments to Mr Staffenden and requests to be informed on what terms he would attend her school at Ealing Grove on occasions of illness...” 1 sie 8vo., Fordhook, 4th May
Item Date:
1836
Stock No:
41692
£475
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