FARJEON
(Joseph Jefferson, 1883-1955, Detective Novelist and Playwright)
Autograph Letter Signed to Eileen Cond, but without greeting,
wishing her "A happy Christmas, and very many thanks for your calendar. I used the one you sent me last year all the year round - and shall do the same ... banishing a street in Worcester of which I grew quite fond, for sea, ships and gulls", he is "replying in kind", he would have sent also his new book "under a new pen-name, 'Anthony Swift' ", but it will not now be out till January, 1 side 8vo, no place, 21st December
Item Date:
1942
Stock No:
17133
£25
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FARJEON
(Joseph Jefferson, 1883-1955, Detective Novelist and Playwright)
Autograph picture postcard signed to Eileen Cond,
asking "Did I ever thank you for your card wishing 'Room No. 6' success? ... the book is doing better than 'Aunt Sunday', though it isn't so good! I read the article on your cottage [Artist's Cottage, Trotshill, Worcestershire] in 'Country Life' ... a ... lovely place to live in", view of The Pond, Ditchling, on verso, St. Davids, Ditchling, Sussex, 10th June
Item Date:
1941
Stock No:
17129
£20
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FARJEON
(Joseph Jefferson, 1883-1955, Detective Novelist and Playwright)
Autograph picture postcard signed to Eileen Cond,
thanking her "for the most attractive card and photograph, which followed the calendar", in an earlier photograph "you were only a rather small figure, I think, outside your house at Ombersley ... in 1937 or 8?", with on the verso Van Gogh's 'The Seine at Asnières', Ditchling, Sussex, postmarked 29th December
Item Date:
1944
Stock No:
17136
£20
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FARJEON
(Joseph Jefferson, 1883-1955, Detective Novelist and Playwright)
Autograph picture postcard signed to Eileen Cond,
saying "I am sure my sister", the writer Eleanor Farjeon, 1881-1965, "will be glad to autograph your books" and giving her address in Hampstead, "My own 'book news' is that 'Rona Runs Away' has sold 20,000 in its first month and my next for Collins is their selection for March ... This sounds horribly conceited - and I think it is!", with on verso a coloured view of Ovingdean Steps near Brighton, Ditchling, Sussex, 5th January
Item Date:
1946
Stock No:
17138
£20
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FARJEON
(Joseph Jefferson, 1883-1955, Detective Novelist and Playwright)
Autograph picture postcard signed to Eileen Cond,
thanking her for her letter with "apologies from Mr. Swift", his pen-name Anthony Swift, "for keeping you awake at nights!", he mentions two titles under his own name, and adds "Yes, 'Gallops' [his play] is a lovely place - we know it well. Winter is still awful!", with on the verso a coloured picture by John Nash of 'Aylesbury Plain', there is a printed quotation from King George VI '... Help to make the world a better place and life a worthier thing' above the space for correspondence, Ditchling, Sussex, 7th February
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
17140
£20
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