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AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. Collection of letters by writers, politicians and other figures, the majority responding to invitations from John Henderson as secretary of the National Liberal Club, the correspondents including Thomas Hardy (typed letter signed, 31 January 1921, with a letter by Florence Hardy excusing her husband for an ungracious reply), E.M. Forster (4, 1911, 1926 and n.d., one about a proposed lecture on Literature & the War, 'I expect I shall be pretty serious: it is so impossible to be anything else'), Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William IV, H.G. Wells (4), Rebecca West, John Buchan (3), George Bernard Shaw (3), Aldous Huxley, Sean O'Casey, Arnold Bennett (2), J.M. Barrie (2), Hilaire Belloc, John Galsworthy, Rose Macaulay (2), Walter de la Mare (2, with typescript poem signed, 'Oh, why!'), Edith Sitwell, Edmund Blunden (2), Stephen Spender, Alfred Munnings, William Rothenstein (2), W.G. Gladstone, Andrew Carnegie, Israel Zangwill (2), Hall Caine, H.H. Asquith (4), David Lloyd George, Andrew Bonar Law, A.J. Balfour (2) and others, with a few cut signatures and envelopes, altogether approximately 135 items, 1887-1972. (128)
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