LUCE
(Henry Robinson, 1898-1967, Founder of 'Time', 'Fortune' and 'Life' magazines)
Typed Letter Signed 'Harry' to Ronald Bodley,
saying "I can understand your incredulity over TIME's assertion that "merde" could be a good luck wish ... but ... that's the way it is in operatic circles ... due to a backstage superstition that it is bad luck to wish any one good luck in so many words", he explains the corresponding wishes in German and Italian, adding "I was fascinated to learn [this lore] when the striking quote occurred in the Callas story. and I hope I have allayed your alarm over Mr. Meneghini's sentiments towards La Callas. It was thoughtful of you to ask about Clare", his wife Clare Boothe LUCE, 1903-1987, congresswoman and US Ambassador to Italy 1953-1957, who "has made a fine recovery", 1 side folio, Time & Life Building, Rockefeller Centre, New York 20, 2nd November
Item Date:
1956
Stock No:
17767
£225
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LYALL
(Sir Charles J., 1845-1920, F.B.A., Judge and Chief Commissioner in Assam, then Central Provinces, translator of Arabic poems)
Signature and address taken from Autograph Letter Signed,
"53 Harley Street, London" April 24th
Item Date:
1865
Stock No:
27066
£25
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LYTTON
(Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer, 2nd Earl, 1876-1947, Governor of Bengal, Writer)
Typed Letter Signed with autograph salutation and subscription to Mr Windsor-Garnett
thanking him "for the kind things you say ... about my book ... I hope you will look me up, if you ever come to my part of the world. I should like to have the pleasure of showing you Antony's home ...", 2 sides 8vo., Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, 24th May
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
12865
£20
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MAARTENS
(Maarten, Pen name of Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten-Schwartz, 1858-1915, Dutch Writer who wrote in English)
Autograph Letters Signed with both signatures to "Dear Madam"
saying that "Mr Ellison has given me yr very kind message & I need hardly say how greatly I appreciate it. I shall now look forward much more to my pilgrimage to Cambridge. My daughter is at Folkestone with her governess, we leave England on Friday week. I think the best thing for us to do wd be to meet at Canterbury early on Tuesday ... if it wd suit you to receive us then, we shall of course be delighted ...", 4 sides 8vo., National Club headed paper, 5th May
Item Date:
1904
Stock No:
40676
£75
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MACAULAY
(Dame Rose, 1889-1958, Writer and Traveller)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Miss O’Malley
telling her that she does “write short stories gratis, but i do not think they have merit for your purpose or, indeed, for any other (though the last thing I want to do it to crab my own work). I find sketches or articles less of a strain on. my intellect, as a rule. May I come and see you sometime & talk about it, as you suggest, or could you come & have tea with me... South Kensington, where I stay when in town...”, 2 sides 8vo., Hedgerley End, Beaconsfield, 13th December year illegible
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
41838
£175
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