SWINBURNE, T. R. (illustrator). A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen & Pencil, London: Smith & Elder, 1907, volume I only (of 2), 8°, AUTHOR'S PROOF COPY WITH 34 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS AND 9 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY SWINBURNE, 12 coloured plates (small stain to margin of first few leaves, stamp of the Allantyne Press Edinburgh to half title and several pages of text), contemporary green half morocco gilt (extremities rubbed).

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SWINBURNE, T. R. (illustrator). A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen & Pencil, London: Smith & Elder, 1907, volume I only (of 2), 8°, AUTHOR'S PROOF COPY WITH 34 ORIGINAL WATERCOLOURS AND 9 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY SWINBURNE, 12 coloured plates (small stain to margin of first few leaves, stamp of the Allantyne Press Edinburgh to half title and several pages of text), contemporary green half morocco gilt (extremities rubbed).

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Together with a typed 2-page letter from Sir Amar Singh to Swinburne, dated Jammu, 28 January 1908, thanking Swinburne for sending him a copy of the book. Singh describes the book as "replete with a vast amount of useful and interesting information for the tourist" and is impressed with the frankness with which Swinburne describes his feelings and sentiments on matters which he had had come across or dealt with. He thanks Swinburne for his reference of himself, saying it "is couched in terms greatly flattering and edifying to me and I thank you very much for the same". He then points out that Swinburne made a mistake in attributing the ownership of the Forrests on the Liddar side to himself. They actually belong to the State and the income therefore goes to its coffers. In the post scriptum which is handwritten Singh invites Swinburne and his wife to come to Kashmir.

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