SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Typed poem signed with autograph inscription to Thomas B. Brumbaugh,
the poem is titled "Winter Landscape" and starts "Come home with white gulls waving across gray / Fields. Evening. A daffodil West. / Somewhere in clefts of rock the birds hide, breast to breast ...", four verses of three lines each, Bronxville, September
Item Date:
1947
Stock No:
15458
£175
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SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Printed Proof copy of his poem "Middle East" signed and with one autograph correction
taken from Literary Supplement 81, 9 verses of 4 lines each starting "One morning, between journeys, rising / From bed at an inn, I went out. / Half an hour after dawn / Already the sun had cut ...", he has changed the word "lines" to "lights" in the fourth verse, 1 side 4to., no place, no date but
Item Date:
1969
Stock No:
39772
£125
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SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Typed Letter Signed to fellow author Aubrey Hodes
thanking him for “sending us your article on a shepherd in Israel which we read with great pleasure and which we would like to publish in ENCOUNTER. However, we may wish to shorten the first two pages and hope you will not mind this. You will certainly be sent a proof copy...”, 1 side A4 on Encounter Magazing headed paper, 25 Haymarket, London, 8th March
Item Date:
1955
Stock No:
42377
£145
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SPENDER
(Sir Stephen, 1909-1995, Poet & Critic)
Autograph Letter Signed to Josephine PULLEIN-THOMPSON
(1924-2014, Writer known for her Pony Books, Leading member of International PEN) saying he is “sorry you will no longer be at PEN - though perhaps I should congratulate you as I am sure you were terribly overworked there. Anyway, I am grateful for all the times you have helped my through various engagements there. I hope you will often visit those old haunts though and that I shall be greeted by your friendly smile when I am next in Dilke St. Thank you and many good wishes for your future...”, 1 side folio, 15 Loudoun Road, NW8 6LS, 20th March
Item Date:
1994
Stock No:
43000
£125
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SPOONER
(William A., 1844-1930, Theologian & Educationalist, Originator of the 'Spoonerism')
Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear Francis"
telling him that he has "to be in Winchester all tomorrow so I fear I cannot see your father ..." but offering Sunday "after University Sermons about 11.30 ..." instead, 1 side 8vo., New College, Oxford, 12th November
Item Date:
1920
Stock No:
28596
£75
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