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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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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WEST
(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine signature, inscription "With all good wishes" and date on a postcard,
Item Date:
1948
Stock No:
8868
£18
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WEST
(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine Typed Letter Signed ‘Rebecca W.’ to Diana MARR-JOHNSON
(1908-2007, Social Advocate, Novelist and Playwright, niece of Somerset Maugham), apologising for not having written earlier “to thank you for that most consoling lunch. But I had another memorial service, and then Henry got gout, and I was given a new drug for a minor ailment which produce a major one, as I was allergic to it. But I have felt so grateful to you. Not only was I deeply fond of Pamela, but the thought of how much happier she might have been if things had gone differently, and how little I had seen of her lately, for stupid reasons (my being in American when she was here, and t’other way round) - all this depresses me, and you lifted the weight. It occurs to me that I may have sounded rather vague about the trustee business, and that it may interest you. The trustee business, I mean, that had made me see that Liza couldn’t do anything but what she did. About fifteen years or so or more I was named as trustee of a trust fund by a woman who died leaving an adopted child, whom she had named as beneficiary of the trust fund... My co-trustee was an inoffensive solicitor of good repute. My solicitor discovered that the dead woman had induced this solicitor of hers to advance her money out of the trust fund which she had no right to have. My solicitor then explained to me that I must sue this solicitor, unless he replaced the money, because if I left matters as they were the adopted child would have the right to sue me for negligence, and so would her heirs! - and in time the sum claimed might be quite large, with interest added to it...”, 2 sides 8vo., Ibstone House, Ibstone headed paper, 27th June
Item Date:
1967
Stock No:
42637
£225
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(Dame Rebecca, 1892-1983, Novelist, Journalist, Biographer and Critic)
Fine signature and date
on a card, 3½” x 2¼”, no place,
Item Date:
1928
Stock No:
42183
£35
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