WELLS
(H. G., 1866-1946, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Jennings White
saying that he has introduced “a new & admirable word (or rather use an old medieval term in a new sense) Entrophy. The T.B.C. Times Book Club says it cannot discover any book of your. Who is your publisher & where is his hide out? You will find I use the word in the discussion at the end of the little book I am sending you & I hope to use it again & again...”, 1 side 8vo., 13 Hanover Terrace headed paper, 12th January
Item Date:
1942
Stock No:
42166
£775
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WELLS
(H. G., 1866-1946, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to H. D. Jennings White
saying “You have no worldly wisdom. I asked someone about you. Have you heard of Herman? I’m told that he got his Ph. D. in some German or Austrian university where it is difficult to avoid them & his M.A. is... from Durham or somewhere. Please put your feathers on straight. M.A. Oxon Ph. D. Lond. By the bye did you meet my son Gip at University Coll?...”, 2 sides 16mo., on separate sheets, with original envelope, 13 Hanover Terrace heaaded paper, 16th February
Item Date:
1942
Stock No:
42713
£525
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WELLS
(Amy Catherine Robbins, 1895-1927, Writer and Poet
Autograph Letter Signed to Ferdinand LEIPNIK
(1869-1924, Spy, Art Historian, Entrepeneur) telling him that her “husband and I are in London, until tomorrow morning when we are going to Little Easton by motor, and we will call for you at 29 Sussex Gardens about ten o’clock to take you with us. We are very sorry you will not be able to stay with us but we can send you back by an evening train as you must return the same day...”, 2 sides 4to., with original autograph envelope, 52 St James’s Court, Buckingham Gate, postmarked 28th August
Item Date:
1914
Stock No:
42564
£275
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“I’M REALLY A SINGULARLY UNPATRIOTIC PERSON AND EVEN IN THE WAR I’M PRO EUROPE...”
WELLS
(H. G., 1866-1946, Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Ferdinand LEIPNIK
(1869-1924, Spy, Art Historian, Entrepeneur) saying he “would like to meet you. I’m really a singularly unpatriotic person & even in the war I am pro Europe & pro civilisation rather than pro British. There is great danger of all the fine possibilities[?] of the war being swamped in purely natural passion. Could you come to me down here for the next week end August 28th-30th & talk?...”, 1 side 4to., with original autograph envelope, Litttle Easton Rectory, Dunmow headed paper, no date, probably August
Item Date:
1916
Stock No:
42563
£775
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WEST
(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ‘Rebecca W.’ to Diana MARR-JOHNSON
(1908-2007, Social Advocate, Novelist and Playwright, niece of Somerset Maugham), saying she has “often wanted to get in touch with you. But I have wasted the last few years in winding up my husband’s estate, which has nearly driven me mad, and all my married life our affairs have been handed over punctiliously to a firm of accountants, who have now handed it back to me in the state of a piece of knitting played with by a litter of kittens. As I picked up the stitches I have had more and. more trouble with. my eyes and so. life has been a shambles. I’ve got my eyes as right as I can and tried to get the knitting on the needles again, and I would like to see you!... Thank you for your book and your kind lunch. (That was a lovely party Sarah and Marjorie gave for me! And I saw so many people lie you that I had been barred off from for so long). I will read your book with pleasure... About Barbara - she is very glad of company if one can sacrifice oneself for an hour or two. She is very old now, and very stiff... and very distraught. But she is sweet and affectionate with her bitchiness and it is all very sad...”, 2 sides 8vo., with original autograph envelope, 48 Kingston House North, Prince’s Gate, S.W.7., 9th February
Item Date:
1973
Stock No:
41929
£275
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