CLODD (Edward, 1840-1930, Banker, Writer, Anthropologist and Rationalist)

Autograph Letter Signed to ‘My der Lucy’ starting “Do I remember the story of The Woman who had Genius? Can I ever forget it! I stuck it in the copy of your Last Touches given to you in - well, as you say, years do tell such tales! Tis one of the loveliest short takes that you ever wrote, it throbs with your nervous English. Your letter is deeply moving, what you say on human limitation and possibilities is all true. Of course, as Agnostics, we do not and cannot deny, neither but I don’t want to burn the first page of your letter because that is a valuable human document...”, 2 sides 8vo., Aldeburgh, 25th February

Clodd was an agnostic and wrote that the Genesis creation narrative of the Bible is similar to other religious myths and should not be read as a literal account. He wrote many popular books on evolutionary science. Clodd had a talent for friendship, and liked to entertain his friends at literary gatherings in Aldeburgh at his seafront home there, Strafford House, during Whitsuntides. Prominent among his literary friends and correspondents were George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, Edward Fitzgerald, Andrew Lang, William Holman Hunt, Sir E. Ray Lankester, H.G. Wells and many others.

Item Date:  1919

Stock No:  41793      £75

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