SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Autograph Letter Signed to Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer known for her Pony Books, Leading member of International PEN) saying he is “sorry you will no longer be at PEN - though perhaps I should congratulate you as I am sure you were terribly overworked there. Anyway, I am grateful for all the times you have helped my through various engagements there. I hope you will often visit those old haunts though and that I shall be greeted by your friendly smile when I am next in Dilke St. Thank you and many good wishes for your future...”, 1 side folio, 15 Loudoun Road, NW8 6LS, 20th March
Item Date:
1994
Stock No:
43000
£125
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SPOONER
(William A., 1844-1930, Theologian & Educationalist, Originator of the 'Spoonerism')
Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Francis"
telling him that he has "to be in Winchester all tomorrow so I fear I cannot see your father ..." but offering Sunday "after University Sermons about 11.30 ..." instead, 1 side 8vo., New College, Oxford, 12th November
Item Date:
1920
Stock No:
28596
£75
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SPRING
(Howard, 1889-1965, Novelist)
Group of 4 Autograph Letters Signed 'Howard' to Mrs Margaret Richards,
at The Chantry, Stocklinch in Somerset, thanking her on behalf of his wife Marion (née Pye, 1890-1976, married 1920), for "the beautiful cloth ... a lovely thing", and sharing her "tribulation ... I didn't know all the roof-thatch had to come down. What a life!" (23rd February 1960), "The Falmouth spring show opens to-morrow so ... this is a day of general confloption and crisis ... Marion is walking round, wreathed and distracted like Ophelia seeking a watery bier", thanking Mrs Richards "for so kindly agreeing to come down and keep an eye on things", and describing what to expect of the garden, (22nd March 1960), thanking her "for your toothsome gift; and, more than that, for thinking of it", he is "on the road now ... but having to take frequent rests", in September they may "loaf around" the St. Ives region if it is "fairly clear of the fiends who now make it hell ... before coming back for a winter's work ... Happily just before going into hospital I had corrected the proofs of ... 'I Met a Lady' ..." (5th August 1961), "I'm glad you liked the book, and sorry that you worried over its location ... The cottage at Trencrom is there all right, but the cottage is ... 'a figment of the imagination' ... I placed it on the sea coast, south of Helston, and that's all ... Usually, for the central scene of a book I like a house I know well. Somehow, that gives the thing reality in my own mind", the "small deer" is "charming" and "is on my study bookshelf ... quite at home there", (19th January 1962), with a photo of the writer and his wife and apparently Mrs Richards outside their Georgian home, 4¼" x 3", (1958), the letters 7 sides 8vo, The White Cottage, Fenwick Road, Falmouth, 1960 -
Item Date:
1962
Stock No:
56157
£325
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SQUIRE
(Sir John C., 1884-1958, Poet and Critic, literary editor of the New Statesman and the London Mercury)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'dear Madam', sending his autograph,
1 side 8vo., Macmillan & Co., St. Martin's Street, 5th October
Item Date:
1934
Stock No:
50641
£15
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ST JOHN
(James Augustus, 1801-1875, Author & Traveller)
Autograph Letter Signed to Morgan,
asking him for a "copy of mysore works as early as possible ... as a monthly is waiting for an article from it - Had I received it today I could have promised it a review in the Sunday Times which would have been of immense service to it ...", 2 sides 8vo., no place, Thursday, no date,
dampstained
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
3230
£25
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