BELLOC
(Hilaire, 1870-1953, Poet, Historian & Essayist)
Autograph Letter Signed to an illegible correspondent
saying that he has “poisoned a finger & have to write as well as I can with thumb & 4th finger. I hope it is legible! My secretary is on holiday. Aug 7th is no good as I have guests here. I’m in town the 14th. If that would do, let me know soon and I’ll arrange...”, 1 side 4to., King’s Land, Shipley headed paper, 5th August
Item Date:
1931
Stock No:
42726
£125
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BENEVISTE
(Asa, 1925-1990, American Poet, Typographer and Publisher)
Typed Letter Signed to Mr Pollet,
rejecting his poems "I like your poems for their obvious sincerity and the area of feeling in which they operate, but I was slightly disturbed by the archaism of your language. It's as though you've let bypass you the experiments with language which English poetry has shown for the past decades. No doubt deliberately but still disturbing, and I think it somewhat undermines what you have to say ... my assessment of anyone's poems is a matter of taste and hardly objective. So I tell you what I think on the one hand, and on the other I would advise you to ignore it and write poems only the way you want ...", 1 side 4to., Trigram Press Headed Paper, 27th January
Item Date:
1970
Stock No:
39580
£55
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BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Brief Autograph Note Signed "E A Bennett" to C. Metcalf
of the Author's Syndicate, "Thomas Baines. Proofs received", on a card headed "Woman", 2 sides postcard, St Dunstan's Chambers, Fleet Street, 25th April
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
39860
£125
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BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed in full to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he doubts "if the letters will reach you as neither myself nor any of my friends have deciphered your signature. Anyhow I hope it will as I am anxious to thank you for your very appreciative letter which has given me much pleasure ...", 1 side 4to.,Avon Fontainebleau, 24th February
Item Date:
1911
Stock No:
39861
£275
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BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in full to Haslam MILLS
(1873-1930, Journalist and Author) returning " the instalment of the book on Sir Charles Macara and Manchester..." (1845-1929,1st Baronet, Cotton Spinner), he continues that he sees "no objection to the elaboration of the background of the portrait. In fact I wish that our biographers in general would work more on the lines which you have taken. Most biographies fail to provide any living background for the portraits. This answers the specific question which you put to me. I may add that in my opinion the appeal of a biography & therefore its circulation, is necessarily widened in proportion to the width of its outlook. Of course your scheme need not, and should not prevent an adequate disclosure of personal biographical detail ...", he continues about the pleasure of seeing him "again after such a long time, but why you should suppose that I should not remember you, after our days in Manchester, I cannot imagine ...", 2 sides 4to., Comarque, Thorpe-Le-Soken, 7th June
Item Date:
1917
Stock No:
39118
£675
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