Lot Essay
Letters of Arnold Bennett, ed. James Hepburn, Oxford University Press, 1986, vol. IV pp. 318-22, includes other letters written during this trip on the Yacht Amaryllis, but none of the above correspondence.
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ARNOLD BENNETT (1887 - 1931)
A 2pp. a.l.s. by Bennett, Yacht Amaryllis R.V.Y.C., [Cannes], 31.1.22, to H.M.T[omlinson], reading: 'I don't even now know why you could not arrange to take on the Harper commission ... I suspect that you have an anti-commission "complex". However, perhaps I am wrong. You are not Tomlinson of Berkeley Square, but you are something devilish like that fellow and the sins that you sinned 2 and 2, you must pay for 1 by 1 ... Incredible misfortunes have happened to the ship (the property of Bertie Sullivan, nephew of "H.M.S. Pinafore"). Captain discharged for bad temper and mischief; Six engines discharged one after the other for inefficiency; the steward in bed with flu ... '; and 6 other a.l.s. and t.l.s. by Bennett. (7)
A 2pp. a.l.s. by Bennett, Yacht Amaryllis R.V.Y.C., [Cannes], 31.1.22, to H.M.T[omlinson], reading: 'I don't even now know why you could not arrange to take on the Harper commission ... I suspect that you have an anti-commission "complex". However, perhaps I am wrong. You are not Tomlinson of Berkeley Square, but you are something devilish like that fellow and the sins that you sinned 2 and 2, you must pay for 1 by 1 ... Incredible misfortunes have happened to the ship (the property of Bertie Sullivan, nephew of "H.M.S. Pinafore"). Captain discharged for bad temper and mischief; Six engines discharged one after the other for inefficiency; the steward in bed with flu ... '; and 6 other a.l.s. and t.l.s. by Bennett. (7)