BELLOC
(Hilaire, 1870-1953, Poet, Historian & Essayist)
Autograph Letter Signed to his publisher “Dear Mr Dent”
telling him that he will be in town on Friday “bringing with me a list of excerpts for the Anthology. I shall bring with me also a short memorandum of the verbal agreement we made in the matter. At the same time I should like to have an agreement with you as to the ‘Eyewitness’ which Helm[?] & Sons have (verbally) allowed me to propose to you as a school-book. I should not, of course, abandon the copy right, & I should like to know the conditions of sale, proposed price, royalty etc.... I will ring up in the course of Friday (or earlier) & find out when it may be convenient for you to see me...”, 1 side 4to., King’s Land, Shipley headed paper, 22nd August
Item Date:
1923
Stock No:
43617
£150
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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 Mr Wood
thanking him for his letter and saying that he was "certainly under the impression that you did not wish to pay any fee at all. I think that you had now better make me an offer. I certainly do not want a high fee, but some fee I must have. I am entirely with you in your non-financial aim; but I do not think that the publisher's profits are quite so problematical as you seem to think ...", 1 side 4to., 75 Cadogan Square, 2nd October
Item Date:
1924
Stock No:
39294
£475
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BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Brief Autograph Note Signed "E A Bennett" to C. Metcalf
of the Author's Syndicate, "Thomas Baines. Proofs received", on a card headed "Woman", 2 sides postcard, St Dunstan's Chambers, Fleet Street, 25th April
Item Date:
1900
Stock No:
39860
£125
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BENNETT
(Arnold, 1867-1931, Poet and Novelist)
Autograph Letter Signed in full to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he doubts "if the letters will reach you as neither myself nor any of my friends have deciphered your signature. Anyhow I hope it will as I am anxious to thank you for your very appreciative letter which has given me much pleasure ...", 1 side 4to.,Avon Fontainebleau, 24th February
Item Date:
1911
Stock No:
39861
£275
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