BELLOC
(Hilaire, 1870-1953, Poet, Historian & Essayist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr BRITTEN
(James, 1846-1924, Botanist) saying that he can only get to "Nottingham for the 29th ... by the early afternoon ... Can you let me know whether I shall be asked to speak, & if so at what hour? You suggest the Health Act. I have only a very vague & general knowledge of that but if you think it the most practical & immediate subject I could take that. If not I would speak of Catholic propaganda in general, especially ... history; but perhaps you will think I have harped on that too much ...", with two postscripts one about trains and other saying that he is writing late "because I am only just back from France", 1 side 4to., King's Land, Shipley headed paper, 14th September
Item Date:
1919
Stock No:
39845
£150
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"I KNOW MORE ABOUT KNOWING NOTHING THAN I DO ABOUT THE OTHER THINGS"
BELLOC
(Hilaire, 1870-1953, Poet, Historian & Essayist)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr BRITTEN
(James, 1846-1924, Botanist) "in very great haste (as I have but just come back ... & the Post is leaving) may I speak on 'Agnosticism', the first subject? I know more about knowing nothing than I do about the other things, a lot more ...", King's Land, Shipley headed paper, 14th September
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
39846
£175
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BELLOC
(Hilaire, 1870-1953, Poet, Historian & Essayist)
Autograph Letter Signed with initials to Mr BRITTEN
(James, 1846-1924, Botanist) saying that "it drags its slow length along. I am now having one days leisure & adding a few more pages to the M.S.S. It isn't half done! But you shall have it the moment it is ...", King's Land, Shipley headed paper, 21st September
Item Date:
1917
Stock No:
39847
£75
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BENEVISTE
(Asa, 1925-1990, American Poet, Typographer and Publisher)
Typed Letter Signed to Mr Pollet,
rejecting his poems "I like your poems for their obvious sincerity and the area of feeling in which they operate, but I was slightly disturbed by the archaism of your language. It's as though you've let bypass you the experiments with language which English poetry has shown for the past decades. No doubt deliberately but still disturbing, and I think it somewhat undermines what you have to say ... my assessment of anyone's poems is a matter of taste and hardly objective. So I tell you what I think on the one hand, and on the other I would advise you to ignore it and write poems only the way you want ...", 1 side 4to., Trigram Press Headed Paper, 27th January
Item Date:
1970
Stock No:
39580
£55
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BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed in full to Haslam MILLS
(1873-1930, Journalist and Author) returning " the instalment of the book on Sir Charles Macara and Manchester..." (1845-1929,1st Baronet, Cotton Spinner), he continues that he sees "no objection to the elaboration of the background of the portrait. In fact I wish that our biographers in general would work more on the lines which you have taken. Most biographies fail to provide any living background for the portraits. This answers the specific question which you put to me. I may add that in my opinion the appeal of a biography & therefore its circulation, is necessarily widened in proportion to the width of its outlook. Of course your scheme need not, and should not prevent an adequate disclosure of personal biographical detail ...", he continues about the pleasure of seeing him "again after such a long time, but why you should suppose that I should not remember you, after our days in Manchester, I cannot imagine ...", 2 sides 4to., Comarque, Thorpe-Le-Soken, 7th June
Item Date:
1917
Stock No:
39118
£675
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