BENSON
(Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of ‘Mapp & Lucia’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Riggs
saying that he “wouldn’t bother much over Daisy’s Aunt - I think she was rather a bore. But why should you think I could snub you for telling me so charmingly that you like some of my perpetration? I like David, too. I want to know how to go on with him. Perhaps better to leave him...”, 2 sides 8vo., 25 Brompton Square, 1st March
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
42669
£225
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BENTLEY
(Phyllis Eleanor, 1894 -1977, English novelist)
Autograph letter signed to Mr Jones
about her best known work 'Inheritance' returning a copy, signed and saying that she thinks "that it is much the best book I have written so far. The textile industry is essentially 'my subject' as my family on both sides have been engaged in it for generations and I have always lived in the West Riding ... it provides a wonderful story in itself ...", 1 side 8vo., 8 Heath Villas, Halifax, 13th April
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
38259
£55
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BENTLEY
(Phyllis Eleanor, 1894 -1977, English novelist)
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Item Date:
0
Stock No:
38260
£10
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BERKELEY
(Grantley Fitzhardinge, 1800-1881, Writer)
Autograph free front signed to E. Thurston, postmarked Bristol & Christchurch, August
Item Date:
1851
Stock No:
18377
£10
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BERLIN
(Sir Isaiah, 1909-1997, Russian British Political Theorist, Philosopher and Historian)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Ava, Viscountess Waverley,
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) saying that he “could do nothing; if I had absented myself on the true ground that I had promised to come to lunch with you (I have never had a meal given ‘for’ me in my life; & hope I never shall) it would have upset the delicate & tenuous academic-benefactor texture too deeply; and have done damage to my future colleagues... was more than I could face, for the sake of personal private life. I was certainly as profoundly frustrated & upset as you could possibly have been... I shall have to give up the old beautiful freedoms - oh dear! I hope your guests were - I am sure they were - perfectly happy; Fred W. kept them all in a good humour, they basked in the light of your - ultimately - irreproachable personality & all was well. I wish it were not true; I have needlessly complicated my life, mutinous whispers already reach my over carefully attuned ears - pity me...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, ‘As from Heddington’, 5th July
Item Date:
1966
Stock No:
42765
£275
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