“NEXT TIME I COME ALIVE I HAVE VOWED TO DO TWO THINGS - RIDE LIKE A CENTAUR & SWIM LIKE A SEAL...”
DE LA MARE
(Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to “Dear Rosemary” SISSON
(1923-2017, Dramatist and Novelist) when she was a child, saying that she “mist, when you wrote, have hard a little bird calling. I was talking to you - & thoroughly enjoying myself - only a few days ago, & then, your Letter. It is ages since the last. Then you were about so high and now it is SO. I shouldn’t (after devouring that photograph) like to be the ball even for half a chuckka if you ever go in for Polo! What a marvel Daphne is! Please give her my love & the greatest Respect. I wish indeed I could see the Cottage. Next time I come alive I have vowed to do two things - ride like a Centaur & swim like a Sea. So perhaps you wouldn’t mind giving me a few lessons if we meet early? I am not a bit surprised the poems have left off for a while, & am sure when you thought (I hope knew) they were getting bad it was best to stop. Mark my words, they may begin again... Do you mind old stories - really exciting ones like Little R.R.H’L? - after they have been spoilt by somebody’s meddling... but it’s only to bring you my love & some more to your father and mother...”, 2 sides 4to., Hill House, Taplow headed paper, 11th October
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
42425
£325
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DE LA MARE
(Walter John, 1873-1956, Poet and Novelist)
Fine Typed Letter with autograph amendments Signed to “Dear Rosemary” SISSON
(1923-2017, Dramatist and Novelist) when she was a young girl, thanking her for her letter and saying he had “no notion that you could possibly have said Goodbye to Cheltenham. I wish indeed I could have seen you there, but for some other reason than a lecture. The fact that there were all those silent faces when I came can only have been Obedience to Orders. I remember mounting only the first step of the intimidating eagle reading desk and then discovering that I could scarcely see over its beak. Do send me the translation some day. Cuckoos; I forget names with the greatest of ease, but not cuckoos. I can remember seeing four in one leafy tree near Salisbury, one flying over the Thames at Oxford and one when I was sat in the garden here actually alighted on the top of a pole a few years away - no doubt to be admired, or did she think my hat was a Meadow Pip’s nest? This year I saw our swallows the day before I heard the first cuckooing - April 20th. I am sad about Wordsworth., but believe he is chiefly the elderly’s poet, so I am afraid is going to be rather a long time before you forgive his Little Lucy’s!...”, 1 side 4to., Hill House, Taplow headed paper, 3rd May
Item Date:
1937
Stock No:
42426
£250
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DE MORGAN
(William Frend, 1839-1917, Artist, Inventor and Author)
Autograph Letter Signed to "Carissima Margot"
saying he "must have "showed my hand for you to find out what I most wanted of all things - that beautiful soap! The very first time I used it, my hand became like that of a court lady - that soft and white, with filbert nails like any portrait in a gallery! I shall always think of the donor when I wash the happy recipient of this birthday gift. T, the patient has just had some champagne, and goes on well - but it was an awful joab to get the cork out ...", 2 sides 4to., addressed at the head "10 + 10 + 10 + 10 +10 + 10 + 10!", 16th November
Item Date:
1909
Stock No:
40544
£475
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DEEPING
(Warwick, 1877-1950, Popular novelist)
Autograph Note Signed regretting that he had not yet read "Death Comes To The Archbishop" (by Willa Cather )
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
9590
£15
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DEEPING
(Warwick, 1877-1950, Author)
Fine signature on card & dustjacket front from 'Old Pybus'
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
7266
£15
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