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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of letters, chiefly from poets and literary figures, the majority to [authors and editors] Clough and Amabel Williams-Ellis, 1920-24 and 1960.
The contributors including: Ford MADOX FORD (1873-1939). Autograph letter signed (‘Ford Madox Ford’) to [Clough] Williams-Ellis, Cap Ferat, 1 December 1923, beginning ‘My friend Ezra [Pound] – such is the last infirmity of noble minds! – is anxious to receive notice in England for his Homage to Propertius’ and making the arrangements to have it reviewed through Williams-Ellis before continuing at length on his experience of France, 2 pages, 4to (253 x 204mm);
also Rudyard KIPLING (typed letter signed, 2 February 1921), Walter DE LA MARE (3), Vita SACKVILLE-WEST, Robert BADEN-POWELL, Osbert SITWELL, H.G. WELLS, Robert GRAVES, Aldous HUXLEY, Edward SHANKS, Edmund GOSSE, Edmund BLUNDEN, Sir Edward LUTYENS, John BUCHAN, Alec WAUGH, Ross MACAULAY, Arthur WALEY, Edith EVANS, Edith SITWELL (3), Stephen LEACOCK, and HAROLD MUNRO. 57 items in total.
The contributors including: Ford MADOX FORD (1873-1939). Autograph letter signed (‘Ford Madox Ford’) to [Clough] Williams-Ellis, Cap Ferat, 1 December 1923, beginning ‘My friend Ezra [Pound] – such is the last infirmity of noble minds! – is anxious to receive notice in England for his Homage to Propertius’ and making the arrangements to have it reviewed through Williams-Ellis before continuing at length on his experience of France, 2 pages, 4to (253 x 204mm);
also Rudyard KIPLING (typed letter signed, 2 February 1921), Walter DE LA MARE (3), Vita SACKVILLE-WEST, Robert BADEN-POWELL, Osbert SITWELL, H.G. WELLS, Robert GRAVES, Aldous HUXLEY, Edward SHANKS, Edmund GOSSE, Edmund BLUNDEN, Sir Edward LUTYENS, John BUCHAN, Alec WAUGH, Ross MACAULAY, Arthur WALEY, Edith EVANS, Edith SITWELL (3), Stephen LEACOCK, and HAROLD MUNRO. 57 items in total.
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