DE LA MARE
(Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)
Collection of Three Autograph Letters Signed, two to Sir Michael SADLER
(1861-1943, Historian, Educationalist and University Administrator) and one to his wife Mary, Lady Sadler, the first says that he thinks "perhaps John Keats would be the best title for the lecture: it would give the most freedom, & I could centralise on any particular aspect of the subject, if this course suggested itself. May I say what a pleasure it is to me to hear the praises that are greeting your son's novel. I have not read it yet but am anxious to do so and wish it every possible success ...", 2 sides 8vo., 10th March, the next says that it is "exceedingly kind of Lady Sadler & yourself to invite me to say a second night. But is a rather important that I shall be in London on Saturday ... if there is a night train on Friday I think I had better go by that. But I am most grateful. I will enquire nearer the day about the morning train to Leeds & send you word, but with your clear directions any one with even less sense of direction than myself could find their way so please let me make my way to the University & do not trouble about the taxi or to meet me. I wish a little less stupid self had been preparing this lecture ... It is good to hear that you approve of the English Asscn lecture ...", 4 sides 8vo., 29th April and the third letter is to Lady Sadler saying that he "reached home about 8 o'clock yesterday morning after a fairly comfortable journey thanks chiefly to those delicious buns. It had been such a very pleasant visit; & I am more grateful than I can say, to you & to Sir Michael for all your kindness. Indeed 'The Return' ... if you should find the time & patience to read it, it will be giving real pleasure to its author. I am wondering from what dreadful raw & overweaning ... the interviewer has put into the Yorkshire Post a craving for the lecturer! Now I can boast that my life's sum of happiness has suddenly been increased by about thirty honors - and I have not yet begun to console myself with the Bottle! I am sending 'China' ... and also an ancient copy of an ancient novel, who hasn't yet recovereed from his astonishment at that immense audience. If Keats could have caught a glimpse of it a hundred years ago, he would, perhaps, have thought a little better of the the Public ..." with a postscript that he has left behind his "old leather toilet case for razors etc, would the maid, if she finds it, very kindly send this on ...", 4 sides 8vo., 8th May, all from 14 Thornsett Road, Anerley, London, March to May
Item Date:
1921
Stock No:
40546
£975
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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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DE LA MARE
(Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)
Autograph Note Signed, returning printed card to the Secretary of the Friends of the Bodleian,
saying he “very much regret that I shall not be able...” to attent the next meeting of the advisory committee, 1 side card, postmarked Paddington, 16th June
Item Date:
1938
Stock No:
41984
£75
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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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