The Property of a Gentleman
Lots 38-78 comprise a collection of correspondance kept by Henry Major Tomlinson (1873-1958) in his role as novelist and literary journalist, chiefly in the inter-war years.
Born in Poplar 21 June 1873, the son of a foreman at the West India Dock, Tomlinson was when a boy already familiar with ships and seamen and the lure of the sea. He was engaged as a reporter for The Morning Leader in 1904, where his love of the sea was amply exploited by his editor, who sent him on several long journeys, one of which resulted in his first book, The Sea and the Jungle (1912), immediately acknowledged as a classic. When The Morning Leader was amalgamated with The Daily News in 1912, Tomlinson stayed on as a leader-writer; he became a war correspondent in Belgium and France in August 1914 and was official correspondent at British G.H.Q. in France in 1914-17. In 1917 he became literary editor of the Nation under H.W. Massingham; a position he held until 1923, when he left for the East Indies on behalf of Harper's Magazine. With Gallions Reach in 1927, which won the 'Feminae-Vie Heureuse Prize' for that year, he reached at last a place where he could devote all his time to writing. His novels became increasingly permeated by a hatred of war -- specifically proclaimed in Mars His Idiot (1935) -- but they showed a redeeming belief in the supreme value of individual personality. He died on 5 February 1958, leaving behind many friends who had appreciated his fine sense of humour and fondness for good conversation in small company. (cf. Compact DNB II, p. 982)
CLIVE BELL (1881-1964) and others
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CLIVE BELL (1881-1964) and others
A typed poem of 4 stanzas, 'The Last Infirmity', signed by Bell, with his manuscript corrections; and a large quantity of manuscript material connected with the Nation, including letters to H.M.Tomlinson and manuscript and typewritten articles by various writers including Alec Waugh and Hugh Walpole.
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A typed poem of 4 stanzas, 'The Last Infirmity', signed by Bell, with his manuscript corrections; and a large quantity of manuscript material connected with the Nation, including letters to H.M.Tomlinson and manuscript and typewritten articles by various writers including Alec Waugh and Hugh Walpole.
(a lot)