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WELLS, H. G. (1866-1946). A 4p. autograph letter signed, dated Arnold House, Sandgate, Kent, 1.11.00, to "My dear Hueffer", beginning "I should have written long before to you to tell you I got home safely had not that pocket handkerchief I still have to return presented difficulties of packing beyond my intelligence; and I should then have apologised to Mrs. Hueffer for whistling past her upon my bicycle with an almost inconceivable lack of elegance and civility". He explains that his shyness weas due to the unexpected appearance of the family's Swiss governess whom "I imagined was some social person of the class that fills my soul with terror & abasement ...."
With 4 other letters to Hueffer from William Hyde, W.H. Hudson, John Galsworthy and W.M. Rossetti, the last commending his choice of Katharine Howard as the subject for a romance. (5)
With 4 other letters to Hueffer from William Hyde, W.H. Hudson, John Galsworthy and W.M. Rossetti, the last commending his choice of Katharine Howard as the subject for a romance. (5)
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