CONNOLLY, Cyril. Collection of short autograph manuscripts, chiefly reviews, brief essays and letters, 1940s-1970, comprising autograph manuscript reviews all tipped into their respective 1962 printed editions for: Aldous Huxley’s lsland, 4 pages, 4°; Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, 5 pages, small 4°; Osbert Sitwell’s Tales my Father Taught Me, 6 pages, 8°; autograph manuscript review of a biography of Michael Faraday, 7 pages, 4°; autograph manuscript, introduction to Isherwood’s All the Conspirators, 1½ pages, slim folio; autograph manuscript signed, August 1961, an article entitled Sotheby’s as an Education, autograph emendations, inscribed to Hobson, 5 pages, 8°, with related material; autograph manuscript, Whitsbury, 28 March 1970, introduction to a T.V. programme on poetry, 2 pages, 8°; and autograph letters signed from his period at Horizon to Osbert Sitwell [1 item, 1943]; John Davenport [1 item]; and Nancy Cunard [2 items, c.1943, one remarking on her poems: ‘I think they are very good in parts … but too literary], and a typed letter signed to Cunard, 1945; [also with:] ‘Art and Literature; an international quarterly’, Spring 1967, accompanied by the autograph manuscript for Brummell at Calais, Connolly's memoir of Brian Howard, which appears in it.

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CONNOLLY, Cyril. Collection of short autograph manuscripts, chiefly reviews, brief essays and letters, 1940s-1970, comprising autograph manuscript reviews all tipped into their respective 1962 printed editions for: Aldous Huxley’s lsland, 4 pages, 4°; Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire, 5 pages, small 4°; Osbert Sitwell’s Tales my Father Taught Me, 6 pages, 8°; autograph manuscript review of a biography of Michael Faraday, 7 pages, 4°; autograph manuscript, introduction to Isherwood’s All the Conspirators, 1½ pages, slim folio; autograph manuscript signed, August 1961, an article entitled Sotheby’s as an Education, autograph emendations, inscribed to Hobson, 5 pages, 8°, with related material; autograph manuscript, Whitsbury, 28 March 1970, introduction to a T.V. programme on poetry, 2 pages, 8°; and autograph letters signed from his period at Horizon to Osbert Sitwell [1 item, 1943]; John Davenport [1 item]; and Nancy Cunard [2 items, c.1943, one remarking on her poems: ‘I think they are very good in parts … but too literary], and a typed letter signed to Cunard, 1945; [also with:] ‘Art and Literature; an international quarterly’, Spring 1967, accompanied by the autograph manuscript for Brummell at Calais, Connolly's memoir of Brian Howard, which appears in it.

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