BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed in full to "My dear Mills"
telling him that "all that this agreeable lecture wants to make it saleable is a famous signature. Without that, I doubt if you will place it in London, as it doesn't deal with people, things that Londoners know ... no-one is less known in London than the members of the 'Times' Staff. I think it is very nice, but I think also it lacks importance. Arm's Politics, it is excellent journalism and no adverse criticism can be made on it. The other thing is too slight to be criticised. If I am to animadvert, I can only say in belittlement that all this stuff has some slight lack of the excessively adroit facility of 'miscellany' ...", he ends by sending good wishes to his wife and offering to entertain them in New York, 2 sides 8vo., Hotel Californie, Cannes, 18th June
faded with loss of some text, worn at folds and repaired
Item Date:
1912
Stock No:
39155
£350
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BENSON
(Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of the 'Mapp & Lucia' novels)
Printed Receipt signed
sending a donation of £1 to the Press Contributors Emergency Fund, in 14 Great Smith Street, London, 1 side oblong 8vo., no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
39413
£75
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BENSON
(Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of the 'Mapp & Lucia' novels)
Autograph Quotation Signed to from Hamlet
"The bird of dawning singeth all night long", 1 side oblong 8vo., no place, Christmas
Item Date:
1926
Stock No:
39543
£150
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BENSON
(Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of ‘Mapp & Lucia’)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Riggs
saying that he “wouldn’t bother much over Daisy’s Aunt - I think she was rather a bore. But why should you think I could snub you for telling me so charmingly that you like some of my perpetration? I like David, too. I want to know how to go on with him. Perhaps better to leave him...”, 2 sides 8vo., 25 Brompton Square, 1st March
Item Date:
1932
Stock No:
42669
£225
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BENSON
(Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of the 'Mapp & Lucia' novels)
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent,
saying that he has "a novel called 'The Climber' coming out in America in January (it has already appeared in England) and another beginning in the Cornhill in July of next year, serially ...", 1 side 8vo., 102 Oakley Street, Chelsea, 12th December
Item Date:
1908
Stock No:
39161
£175
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