SYMONS, A.J.A. 6 autograph letters (11 pages, 4°, 2 pages, 8°) and 31 typed letters (55 pages, 4°) signed to C.K. Ogden, June 1939 - August 1941. Largely devoted to the collections of musical boxes that Symons was making for himself and for Ogden, with characteristic financial complexities. Divagations on Andre Simon’s adoption of Basic English; the War; a visit to Alfred Douglas; his book on African exploration; his neurological struggles. [With:] a typed script of Symons’s 1939 broadcast talk on musical boxes, 11 pages, folio. “I noted many tricks, hesitancies and peculiarities which I hope to correct or eradicate. If only I could listen to your machine every day, I should be an orator in six months, and a dictator, doubtless, in twelve”. Also with an autograph letter and 8 typed letters signed from Symons’s sister, Edith Watson, concerning her late brother’s debts, 1941-1943; one Ogden autograph draft; a few letters from the Estate’s solicitors. Half black morocco box.