"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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SIGNATURE OF ‘ALICE’
LIDDELL
(Alice Pleasance Hargreaves, neé Liddell, 1852-1934, the little girl that Lewis Carroll used as the model for ‘Alice in Wonderland’)
Fine signature on card
3½” X 2½”, no place, dated in another hand 16th April
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
42683
£375
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LINKLATER
(Eric, 1899-1974, Writer)
Fine signature and "Good wishes" on Savile Club headed card
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
7912
£10
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ELIOT PROBABLY EXAGGERATED AS POETS DO
LINKLATER
(Eric, 1899-1974, Scottish Writer)
Typed Letter Signed to David SELF
(1941-2008, Teacher, Writer and Broadcaster), thanking him and saying "I am glad you liked my introduction", he knows "something of the perils of teaching ... your school motto might well carry a sub-motto for the masters' common room: 'Boys agitant mentem' ", with Linklater's typescript signed and dated saying "A choir of young voices is always delightful ... it's an excellent idea to let the owners ... write their own carols, and then put them on exhibition. In the 1964 anthology there was a great deal of wonderfully fresh writing" with "the unsullied feeling of natural soloists", he is sure "the new volume will again be filled with pages as bright as April and ... very occasionally - as tearful as April; which as T.S. Eliot reminded us, can sometimes be cruel, though he probably exaggerated, as poets do", and sending his "warm congratulations ... to every young genius behind his desk and to the terrifying masters who so tenderly nurture that genius ...", 1 side 10" x 8", no place, January 1965, the letter 1 side 9" x 7", Pitcalzean House, Tain, Ross-shire, 3rd February
Item Date:
1965
Stock No:
54284
£250
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