LEHMANN (John Frederick, 1907-1987, English Poet and Man of Letters)

Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Hamilton saying that he has “only just got back fro abroad (last night), so I hope you will excuse me for not answering your letter before. I did have a word... with Dr Klopstock before I left, and he promised to ring me to arrange a meeting this month. Meanwhile, of course, no agreement about the last seven years of ‘The London Magazine’ is valid without my signature. As for the Cheltenham Festival, I am honoured that you should invite me. Dates are, however, important. I have to go abroad for a short trip - Venice/Vienna - between September 15th and October 11th, so an exact commitment is essential. If you can now say definitely that it will be October 4th I think I can come...”, 2 sides 4to., 85 Cornwall Gardens headed paper, 12th July

Lehmann joined Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946. He then established his own publishing company, John Lehmann Limited, with his novelist sister Rosamond Lehmann (who had a nine-year affair with one of Lehmann's contributing poets, Cecil Day-Lewis). They published new works by authors such as Sartre and Stendhal, and discovered talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee. He also published the first two books by the cookery writer Elizabeth David, A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking.

Item Date:  1967

Stock No:  42641      £55

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