WOOLF ON MRS DALLOWAY
WOOLF
(Virginia, 1882-1941, Novelist, Critic & Essayist)
Excellent Autograph Letter Signed to Mlle Monteil
a French writer who had written a sympathetic critical analysis of Mrs. Dalloway, she starts by saying that she well remembers meeting her last winter and goes on to thank her "for your very generous and what is better, highly intelligent study of Mrs. Dalloway. I am very grateful to you for the care and skill which you have spent on my work - it seems to me one of the subtlest & most interesting studies of it that I have read. No doubt you have praised it too highly - of that an author cannot judge -but to be praised for the qualities one had wished to possess is a great pleasure & a rare one. I am particularly interested that a French critic should be so sympathetic; my faults are those, I should have said, that your race most abominates ...", 1 side 4to., 52 Tavistock Square, 14th July
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
37165
£5750
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[WOOLF
(Virginia, 1882-1941, née Stephen, wife, 1912, of Leonard, 1880-1969)]
'The Moment and other Essays', some previously unpublished,
first collected edition, on a wide range of subjects from Spenser to D.H. Lawrence, women from Mrs Thrale to Ellen Terry, and two gently ironic essays on 'Royalty', one previously unpublished, preface by Leonard Woolf, 191 pages 8vo in maroon boards, gilt lettering on spine, neat name on front free endpaper, The Hogarth Press (founded by the Woolfs in 1917), London,
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
53578
£35
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WORDSWORTH
(Gordon)
Typed Letter Signed to Mr Walmsley,
returning his "most interesting little booklet ... so far I have failed to find it among my own treasures", and lending him "my copy of Mr. Wise's invaluable bibliography", 1 side oblong 8vo., The Stepping Stones, Ambleside, 13th July
edges a little dust-marked
Item Date:
1927
Stock No:
19123
£15
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WORDSWORTH
(William, 1770-1850, Poet Laureate)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Colonl"
saying he is "sorry that when I had the Shoe this morning I forgot to say that the Shoemaker must send it back tonight as it is the only pair I have for the evening. Would you be so kind as to send him directions to let me have it ...", 1 side 8vo., 41 Upper Grosvenor Street, no date,
previously torn but professionally repaired
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
38821
£1975
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WORDSWORTH
(William, 1770-1850, Poet Laureate)
Fragment from an Autograph Letter not Signed
"My dear Sir" on one side and "was not opened till this morning. i hope you will excuse this apparent ...", 4½" x 1½", no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
40627
£75
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