FROUDE HOPES RUSKIN WILL STILL JOIN HIM IN IRELAND
FROUDE
(James Anthony, 1818-1894, Historian)
Autograph Letter Signed to John RUSKIN
(1819-1900, the Writer and Critic), written from Derreen, the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne's seat in Co: Kerry, asking if it is still possible for him "to come to us ... for here too you could draw as well as in France ... within a mile of us are 10 or 12 subterranean villages ... and chambers radiating and into which you creep & find yourself in a habitable cell ... what were the people that lived in them? ... and did the mountains look to them as they look to us ... did the sunsets that crimson the peaks seem beautiful to them - or do our own eyes make the beauty as they make the arch of the rainbow? I wish your eyes could see it all & make some enduring memory of it", Ruskin's letter "is extremely interesting for I see that you are hardening yourself and it is hard metals that cut deep - are you going into Parliament? ... if that body is to continue, a recollection will revive there that there is a difference between right & wrong, between truth & falsehood ... and you may perhaps be the instrument", they are staying "till November ... so there is a long locus poenitentiae [room for change of heart] ... if you think better of your resolution", and ending "As to the value of your work, past & to come - we value least that which we do best ... one of the most perplexing paradoxes of our condition", 4 sides 8vo, Derreen, Kenmare, 16th August no year but 1869 or
light mark (?cancellation on being answered) on side 1 touching one or two letters without loss, light trace of transparent guard in blank inner edges, light shadows and two small pen trials on side 4, otherwise good
Item Date:
1870
Stock No:
56318
£225
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FURBER
(Douglas, 1885-1961, Lyricist and Playwright)
Fine signature and inscription
“With pleasure!”, and the date on card, 5” x 3½”, no place,
Item Date:
1936
Stock No:
42809
£45
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GALSWORTHY
(John, 1867-1933, Author of 'The Forsyte Saga', Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature)
Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Mr Rowsell", on Bury House, Bury, Nr Pullborough, Sussex headed paper,
"Mr Brockhurst tells me that you are to pay the rent on this cottage, I have fixed it a 3/- a week and suppose it is due from the middle of August last" he goes on to ask when he can start to pay the rent, 1 side 4to, November 8th
creased across and down the letter
Item Date:
1931
Stock No:
27359
£175
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GALSWORTHY
(John, 1867-1933, Author of 'The Forsyte Saga', Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature)
Autograph Letter Signed to his cousin "My Dear Ned", on 10 Tor Gardens, Campden Hill headed paper,
"I return to you the draft surrender to which we see no objection....hoping the matter will now shortly be concluded" two sides 8vo, June 23rd
Item Date:
1903
Stock No:
27307
£125
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GALSWORTHY
(Ada née Cooper, Wife of the Novelist John Galsworthy 1867-1933, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Jones,
saying how sorry they are to hear about Mr Jones illness, "We will be glad to come in if we may about 4 O'clock on sunday afternoon", 1 side large 8vo, Wingstone, Manaton, Devon, no place, no date, with autograph envelope, postmarked December 17th
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
28024
£40
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