MITCHISON
(Naomi, b.1897, Novelist)
Fine Typed Letter Signed to Mr Harding Edgar,
apologizing for not answering, "but owing to no cook and no secretary have had my hands full", she goes on to say that she hasn't had the "time to look for letters and I think I'd have to consult Mrs Lewis, but what I have now got is a notebook with the complete first draft of a book from beginning to end. It is a frightful nuisance working like this, and I can't think how any serious writer does!", 1 side 8vo, 2 Harcourt Buildings, 29th, n.y.,
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0
Stock No:
29387
£75
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MITFORD
(Nancy, 1904-1973, Author)
Fine Long ALS ('Nancy Mitford') to Madame del Riego
(Teresa Clotilde, 1876-1968, Violinist, Pianist, Singer and Composer of Spanish ancestry), thanking her for her letter "it was so kind of you to write exactly the sort of praise one loves to receive. Most people don't really read what one writes, only what they themselves imagine. Half the letters I got were to order me to book rooms at 'Ste Fay' - how much with full pension! ... So you do see that yours made a change! ...", 2 sides 8vo., Rue Monsieur VII, Suffron 7665, 12th August
Item Date:
1961
Stock No:
38846
£245
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to 'My dear Sir', probably Samuel Carter Hall, 1800-1889,
asking that "(if it is not inserted in this Month's Magazine) you will have the goodness to send the M.S. of the little article on the Cottage Gardens together with the next No. to W.W. Ogbourne Esq.", and asking him to confirm that "there is the paper of this series in this New Monthly", with a magnificent engraving "by A. Collas's Patent Process" of a Gothic memorial plaque to Miss Mitford signed by L.W. Wyon, 8½" x 6¾", the letter 1 side 8vo., no place, no date, c.
each laid down and further laid down on an A4 filing sheet
Item Date:
1835
Stock No:
19948
£175
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Portion of an autograph letter expressing her belief in the mercy and goodness of God, 2 sides of half of 1 sheet 8vo., n.p., n.d.
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0
Stock No:
18380
£10
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MITFORD
(Mary Russell, 1787-1855, Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed to B. B. Thatcher
saying that she has "read the greater part of Mrs Hale's Volumes & find them as you represented full of good feelings & good sense. Except a touch of protestant bigotry in the Catholic convert & a little too much operation of American Freedom, which is so admitted a matter that it does not require constant talking about. There is nothing which any one can find fault with. I only hope you may find the London Publisher's approbation as ready as mine. Forgive all my ... in yesterday's packet. I keep, as an authoress, clear of Politics & of all disputable points ...", 1 side 4to., no place, no date
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41205
£175
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