LESLIE
(Doris, 1891-1982, Novelist and Historian, wife of Sir Walter Fergusson Hannay)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond,
saying "having no car, and stuck at my desk ... I can seldom get out of Budleigh", she has just spent "almost two weeks in London delivering my latest book to Heinemann's", making "copious cuts ... working in their office and my hotel bedroom ... They are very enthusiastic" and "are hastening publication for ... June ... I like to have one going before publication of another ... My previous publishers [H & S] always gave me about ten months interval at least", she hopes Miss Cond will come over, "London was awful! Full of diesel fumes ... I stay at the Rembrandt" within walking distance of her friends, "but most of them also have country houses or cottages where they can get away from it all", 4 sides 8vo, Cintra, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 7th November
Item Date:
1964
Stock No:
17735
£40
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LEVIN
(Bernard, b. 1928, Journalist and Broadcaster)
Typed Letter Signed to Miss M.L. Whichello of the Cheltenham Gramophone Society,
regretting that "I have too much on my plate to accept", 1 side 8vo, The Times, Printing House Square, E.C.4, 2nd May
Item Date:
1972
Stock No:
17738
£15
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"I EXPECT TO HEAR SHORTLY OF HIS BEING GONE TO GRETNA GREEN WITH SOME FEMALE BLACKAMOOR"
LEWIS
(Matthew Gregory "Monk", 1775-1818, Novelist and Dramatist
Autogrph letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he intends to "accept your invitation on Thursday: if it is inconvenient to receive me on that day, you must direct to me at Barnes, otherwise I shall not hear from you ... I congratulate Brook on his safe arrival after all 'his moving accidents by flood and field'; I expect to hear shortly of his being gone to Gretna Green with some female Blackamoor 'who loved him for the dangers he had past' ...", 1 side 8vo., Barnes, Monday no date, annotated in another hand as 6th November
Item Date:
1806
Stock No:
40227
£1250
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MANUSCRIPT POEM SIGNED BY C. S. LEWIS
LEWIS
(C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of ‘The Screwtape Letters’)
Autograph Fair Copy with one correction of his poem “Vowels and Siren” with one variation from the printed version,
the poem starts “Chosen to seduce you, / Those dove-like vowels, / Deuro – kudos – Odusseus. / Opening the bay, his prow. Appeared. The air rang with / Sirens’ voices. / The hero, bound, in anguish / Tried to retract his choice...”, however the third verse has a different last line and runs “No word of solace / For a lover’s longing / They breathed. Of vanished knowledge / Was their intemperate song...”, whereas the published version has the word “interrupted”, he has also corrected the first word of the next verse but otherwise the last three verses are the same as the printed version, 1 side A4, Magdalen College, Oxford, no date but circa
Item Date:
1950
Stock No:
42441
£19500
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LEWIS
(C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of ‘The Screwtape Letters’)
Re-used envelope signed with initials “C.S.L.” with the original direction to C. S. Lewis crossed out addressed to “Miss J. Flewett”,
at “Kingswood, Gipsy Lane, London S.W.15”, which has also been crossed out and it has been re-directed to “Miss Jill Raymond” in Worcestershire, together with a later Typed Envelope addressed to Mrs C. Freud, 2 envelopes, the second postmarked Oxford, 1948 and
Item Date:
1966
Stock No:
42213
£575
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