LEMON
(Mark, 1809-1870, Founding Editor of ‘Punch' and ‘The Field’)
Autograph Letter signed to S. C. Scoles
apologising for troubling him “but the wind has taken the liberty of removing two or three of our ridge tiles. Will you be kind enough to remember this. I should be glad to have the outside of the house repainted this spring. Should it be agreeable to you to do so I will paint & paper the interior. I shall be glad to know yr determination at your earliest leisure...”, 2 sides 8vo., Monday, no date
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0
Stock No:
42200
£150
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LESLIE
(Doris, 1891-1982, Novelist and Historian, wife of Sir Walter Fergusson Hannay)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond,
saying she is just on the revision of her latest book, and has found a flat in Budleigh, meanwhile she and her furniture are in the hotel, "I greatly wish I had never come so far from the few friends I have in or near London, only of course I could never live in London", she hopes Miss Cond can come over from Sidmouth, with a P.S. "I have left Hodder & Stoughton - have a far better contract with Heinemann who have been angling for me for years! Please excuse scrawl", 2 sides folio, Rolle Hotel, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 5th May n.y., c.
Item Date:
1964
Stock No:
17734
£35
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LESLIE
(Doris, 1891-1982, Novelist and Historian, wife of Sir Walter Fergusson Hannay)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond,
saying "having no car, and stuck at my desk ... I can seldom get out of Budleigh", she has just spent "almost two weeks in London delivering my latest book to Heinemann's", making "copious cuts ... working in their office and my hotel bedroom ... They are very enthusiastic" and "are hastening publication for ... June ... I like to have one going before publication of another ... My previous publishers [H & S] always gave me about ten months interval at least", she hopes Miss Cond will come over, "London was awful! Full of diesel fumes ... I stay at the Rembrandt" within walking distance of her friends, "but most of them also have country houses or cottages where they can get away from it all", 4 sides 8vo, Cintra, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 7th November
Item Date:
1964
Stock No:
17735
£40
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LEVIN
(Bernard, b. 1928, Journalist and Broadcaster)
Typed Letter Signed to Miss M.L. Whichello of the Cheltenham Gramophone Society,
regretting that "I have too much on my plate to accept", 1 side 8vo, The Times, Printing House Square, E.C.4, 2nd May
Item Date:
1972
Stock No:
17738
£15
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"I EXPECT TO HEAR SHORTLY OF HIS BEING GONE TO GRETNA GREEN WITH SOME FEMALE BLACKAMOOR"
LEWIS
(Matthew Gregory "Monk", 1775-1818, Novelist and Dramatist
Autogrph letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he intends to "accept your invitation on Thursday: if it is inconvenient to receive me on that day, you must direct to me at Barnes, otherwise I shall not hear from you ... I congratulate Brook on his safe arrival after all 'his moving accidents by flood and field'; I expect to hear shortly of his being gone to Gretna Green with some female Blackamoor 'who loved him for the dangers he had past' ...", 1 side 8vo., Barnes, Monday no date, annotated in another hand as 6th November
Item Date:
1806
Stock No:
40227
£1250
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