[DE GONCOURT
(Edmond, 1822-1896, French Writer, Art and Literary Critic and founder of the Académie Goncourt)]
Large original unsigned photo by Goupil & Co, from the Cliche Nadar in the Gallerie Contemporaire
showing him half length, seated, with a cigarette in his hand, 9" x 7¼" on page 13½" x 10", no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1877
Stock No:
38460
£175
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“NEXT TIME I COME ALIVE I HAVE VOWED TO DO TWO THINGS - RIDE LIKE A CENTAUR & SWIM LIKE A SEAL...”
DE LA MARE
(Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to “Dear Rosemary” SISSON
(1923-2017, Dramatist and Novelist) when she was a child, saying that she “mist, when you wrote, have hard a little bird calling. I was talking to you - & thoroughly enjoying myself - only a few days ago, & then, your Letter. It is ages since the last. Then you were about so high and now it is SO. I shouldn’t (after devouring that photograph) like to be the ball even for half a chuckka if you ever go in for Polo! What a marvel Daphne is! Please give her my love & the greatest Respect. I wish indeed I could see the Cottage. Next time I come alive I have vowed to do two things - ride like a Centaur & swim like a Sea. So perhaps you wouldn’t mind giving me a few lessons if we meet early? I am not a bit surprised the poems have left off for a while, & am sure when you thought (I hope knew) they were getting bad it was best to stop. Mark my words, they may begin again... Do you mind old stories - really exciting ones like Little R.R.H’L? - after they have been spoilt by somebody’s meddling... but it’s only to bring you my love & some more to your father and mother...”, 2 sides 4to., Hill House, Taplow headed paper, 11th October
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
42425
£325
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DE LA MARE
(Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)
Fine Typed Letter with autograph amendments Signed to “Dear Rosemary” SISSON
(1923-2017, Dramatist and Novelist) when she was a young girl, thanking her for her letter and saying he had “no notion that you could possibly have said Goodbye to Cheltenham. I wish indeed I could have seen you there, but for some other reason than a lecture. The fact that there were all those silent faces when I came can only have been Obedience to Orders. I remember mounting only the first step of the intimidating eagle reading desk and then discovering that I could scarcely see over its beak. Do send me the translation some day. Cuckoos; I forget names with the greatest of ease, but not cuckoos. I can remember seeing four in one leafy tree near Salisbury, one flying over the Thames at Oxford and one when I was sat in the garden here actually alighted on the top of a pole a few years away - no doubt to be admired, or did she think my hat was a Meadow Pip’s nest? This year I saw our swallows the day before I heard the first cuckooing - April 20th. I am sad about Wordsworth., but believe he is chiefly the elderly’s poet, so I am afraid is going to be rather a long time before you forgive his Little Lucy’s!...”, 1 side 4to., Hill House, Taplow headed paper, 3rd May
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
42426
£250
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DE LA MARE
(Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)
Collection of Four Typed Letters Signed with some manuscript amendments, to Jon WYNNE-TYSON
(1924-2020, Author,Publisher, Quaker, Activist and Pacifist, Founder of the Centaur Press) the first saying "how well I recollect a little difficulty that occurred over a brief but obscure rhyme which was contributed to Enquiry. I had no notion of course that John Galsworthy had transluminated what was 'a bit obscure'. Do let us meet some day ... meanwhile if you'd care to send the two books you mention by post they shall be safely returned and without delay These next few weeks are made difficult by a good many engagements and my having lately been less well again ...", suggesting that they meet in about three weeks, "things ought to be clearer then, and some of the imperative things to do, heaven helping, done! ...", 2 sides oblong 8vo., the next confirms the meeting and asks "if this address will be easy to find .. Apart from a car, I think the best route is to Richmond Station ... The stopping place is Crown Road. Montpelier Row is immediately on your left ... Do tell me then if Gawsworth's remark to Cox was viva voce! ...", 1 side oblong 8vo., the next thanks him "for sending me without a day's delay, your copy of The Enchanted April. One only has to dip for a moment or two to realise what one will find in the well. Its author was a great friend of Katherine Mansfield, wasn't she? And the other day an Australian friend came to tea with me who knew the whole family. It won't, I gather, be any sort of a bother if I keep the book for some little time. I did so much enjoy that little tea party, but regret ... that so much of it was in the form of a monologue and in a voice I know only too well. Years ago a friend gave me a book containing beautiful reproductions of details in nearly all the well known pictures of Breughel, with a preface written by the Custodian of the Breughel Gallery ... fascinating and it is astonishing that so many minute fractions of his big pictures should be pictures in themselves. Bosch I don't know well - not thoroughly ... though reference is made to him by the Midget, Miss M. in an old novel of mine that appeared in the early twenties ..." and returning some books, 2 sides oblong 8vo., and finally he says that "Mrs Little will certainly bless your name (though with my usual promptitude I nearly sent it off to another visitor - the glove I mean) ... Do at any time send me any book if you would like me to put my name in it ...", 1 side oblong 8vo., with one original envelope, all from 4 Southend Road, Montpelier Row, Twickenham9th September to 12th October 1953, together with carbon copies of the replies from Wynne-Tyson to De La Mare, which extensively fill in the background to the letters, in the reply to number 3 he writes "Unmistakably voce and very viva ...", 8 sides A4, 9 St Anne's Close, Highgate, September to October
Item Date:
1953
Stock No:
40717
£775
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DE LA MARE
(Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)
Autograph Note signed on a card addressed to Louis Frewer
“with all good wishes”, 4” x 2½”, no place, 2nd April 1930, with an accompanying Typed Letter Signed from Olive C. JONES (1907-1997, his secretary during the 1930s and later, Editor at Methuen’s) saying that he has been asked to send this “card with his signature, and to say that he is sorry he has spoilt one side of it...”, 1 side 4to., Hill House, Taplow headed paper, 3rd April
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
41972
£75
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