CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS
(Lt.-Col. Eliot, 1879-1962, M.P., Soldier, Novelist, Playwright)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond, in flirtatious style,
saying "I'm glad I'm not a museum piece ... You are very right to be chaperoned by Meryl ... when meeting such dangerous people as authors ... Who is the lucky gentleman with you ?" in the Spanish photograph, he talks of his young sons at school, of writing a libretto, of having written 'Lob's Pound' "as a play at the same time as a novel ... Let me know if ever there's a chance of meeting you (and of course Meryl!)", 2 sides 4to., 18 Embankment Residences, Cheyne Walk, 19th November
Item Date:
1936
Stock No:
50555
£45
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CREASEY
(John Creasey, 1908-1973, British Crime Thriller Writer)
Typed Letter Signed with Autograph postscript signed with initials to Dennis WHEATLEY
(1897-1977, Novelist) saying that he has just “read your splendid review of MEET THE BARON... and I really must say how much I appreciate it. I know without your enthusiastic support the story would probably have been only a runner-up, and I feel that your many kind remarks in the review put the finishing touch to everything you have done. I only hope that the results of publication realise as substantially as you suggest they will - I think I can guarantee the industry if not the wisdom! You can imagine that I was particularly sorry to learn a few days ago that publication of THE BARON had been postponed until January - but I suppose this is on the the many little trials and tribulations that cannot be avoided. I see... that CONTRABAND is now in its fifth printing, and that IT IS EASIER FOR A CAMEL is in its third printing. Please accept my congratulations on this further success on the part of yourself and Mrs Wheatley...”, the postscript says that he has “now changed my address - due entirely to this new affluence!...”, 1 side A4, Silver Firs, Ashe, Overton, Basingstoke, headed paper, 24th October 1936, together with Wheatley’s response in carbon copy, saying that he was “very pleased indeed to have the opportunity of giving MEET THE BARON a notice in CURRENT LITERATURE, and I am only so sorry that it should have appeared in the October issue as the book is not to appear now until January... George Harrap told me of the postponement a few days later, but he said that he thought the review would do an equal amount of good as useful advance publicity...”, 30th October
Item Date:
1936
Stock No:
42490
£175
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CREASEY
(John Creasey, 1908-1973, British Crime Thriller Writer)
Typed Letter Signed to John Gwynne Hughes,
happily sending the "signatures - although today I use John Creasey on all contracts. I'm very glad you enjoy my books ...", 1 side 8vo., New Hall, Bodenham, Wiltshire, 24th March
Item Date:
1961
Stock No:
39862
£125
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CROKER
(John Wilson, 1780-1857, Historian & Essayist, Secretary of the Admiralty)
Signature on Address Panel
to Alfred MONTGOMERY, (1814-1896, Clerk in the Admiralty, Commissioner of Inland Revenue, 4th son of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, M.P.) at Kingston House, (Knightsbridge), 1 side 8vo, no place, no date, circa
Item Date:
1845
Stock No:
55904
£15
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CROKER
(Thomas Crofton, 1798-1854, Irish Folklorist)
Signature and end of an ALS to Mr Wadd
hoping that he will "favor me with a visit today ...", 4" x 2", no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
38618
£35
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