BEATON SENDS CONDOLENCES ON THE DEATH OF LADY WAVERLEY’S ONLY CHILD
BEATON
(Sir Cecil, 1904-1980, Photographer & Designer)
Long Autograph Letter iSigned to “My Dearest Ava”, Lady Waverley, signed “Cecil”
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) saying that he was “so sad when my mother telegraphed me your tragic news. I can imagine a little how lost & bereft you must feel, & how many lively associations & links with the past must have suddenly snapped. But I am sure I cannot even begin to know what a sorrow it must be for a mother to lose an only child. You had been so wonderful in your care and devotion & it seems terribly unfair that after so long you should have him taken away from you... We live the life of peasants - always out of doors - & there is not even a bottle of ink in the house. However, it has been a great rest - & I now feel very well after the ten days complete relaxation, I am beginning to feel a bit more strength in my body; Before I was completely worn out... It was a disappointment to me to discover I had not written a masterpiece of a play, but I now think I am very lucky to have the opportunity of doing a lot of rewriting on the play before it is shown again to the public. I am storing up energy to tackle the problem... I am back to work at a dress Rehearsal Sadler’s Wells... I am very sad to hear about the death of Constant Lambert. He was a brilliant & remarkable person with more energy & talent than ten other men put together...”, 3 sides 4to., with original autograph envelope, Taormina, 26th August
Item Date:
1951
Stock No:
43607
£225
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BEECHAM
(Sir Thomas, 1879-1961, Conductor)
Brief typed note signed to an unnamed correspondent,
“For Joint ?”,” on 1 side card headed 31 Grove End Road, St John’s Wood, 29th October
Item Date:
1953
Stock No:
43604
£75
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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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BENSON
(Edward Frederick, 1867-1940, Novelist & Scholar, Author of ‘Mapp & Lucia’)
Small Archive of Six Autograph Letters Signed to Ronald Riggs (’R.R.’, ‘Mr Riggs’ and ‘Ronald’)
the first saying that “Bournemouth seems to be a very lively p lace, & if I ha time I would certainly come down to see the Alderman & perhaps borrow one of his ships for a bathe. Let me hear more of his doings sometime; perhaps he lends himself to what may be called ‘literary treatment’. I’m sorry you’ve given up writing; does other work interferre with it? Or tennis? Off in a few days to Rye when I shall have a great deal of work to do, & also I hope sun-bathe in. my watered garden. Excuse the scrappiness of this!...”, 2 sides 8vo., 25 Brompton Square headed paper, 31st May 1932, the next says he has “just disinterred a letter of yours that I’m afraid was written weeks ago, & there’s the photograph for which you held out hope? I haven’t seen it. There’s a very silly book of verse just out, but the reviews say it’s flippant, when I though it profound and edifying and all the rest of it... And there’s a gale sweeping across my garden, & it’s cold, and so I lit a. firer & must now go and dress for dinner. And yesterday I was sun-bathing & found it almost too hot...”, 2 sides 8vo., Lamb House, Rye headed paper, 24th July 1932, the third returns “the photograph you sent me, you look a very happy party & I hope you had a pleasant bath before or after or perhaps both. But telephoning - I am the worst telephoner in the world for I never can think of anything to say & you would sit before the instrument only to receive the information that it is hot (or probably cold)...”, 2 sides 8vo., Brompton Square headed paper, 10th December 1883, the fourth congratulates him “upon getting into print; c’est le premier pas qui conte. Now you’ve got to make good your first step, & put the second down solidly. Your first note about the motor-coach is quite a good item & I like Mr Lewis’s glass music stool (only it ought to be chameleon). Go on with picturesque things...”, 2 sides 8vo., Lamb House headed, 6th May 1934, the fist encloses his “cuttings, which I read with renewed admiration for people who can tell me All About It in a few lines,. But I should have liked to hear more of Kate...”, 2 sides 8vo., Lamb House headed, 5th July 1935 and the final letter is “Delighted to hear that you have expanded - Remember to be always slightly indiscreet; that is what those who read like and it is more fun. No; no sun yet at Rye but I’m told that the moon is all right...”, 2 sides 8vo.,Lamb House headed, 1st March
Item Date:
1936
Stock No:
43616
£975
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[BERESFORD
(Admiral Lord Charles, 1846-1919, M.P. for Portsmouth, Lover of ‘Darling Daisy’, Frances, Countess of Warwick)]
Unsigned original carte de visite photo
showing him head and shoulders in uniform, 4” x 2½”, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
43621
£25
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