Bloomsbury Auctions

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243. Poetry.- Barnefield (Richard), Samuel Daniel, Michael
Drayton, William Drummond, John Florio, Robert Herrick,
William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser,
Henry Howard Earl of Surrey & Joshua Sylvester. ea r ly en g l i S h
So n n e t S, manuscript, title and 26pp., original card wrappers, paper
label with manuscript title on upper cover, stitched, “Chosen and
written out by Edwin A. Hyett”, Autumn 1946; and a small quantity
of others, including material relating to the Gordon family (tickets
to the Coronation of George IV) and letters from Hyett, v.s., v.d.
(sm. qty). £100 - £150
244. Shaw George Bernard, playwright, 1856-1950) au t o g r a p h
po S t C a r d S i g n e d to “th e” ti m eS n e w S pa p e r, postcard, Ayot St
Lawrence, Hertfordshire, 18th April 1950, requesting a copy of the
second edition of “The Times” Guide to the House of Commons,
“Please send me this; and charge to my a/c G. Bernard Shaw,”
newspaper cutting laid down and a colour printed postcard of
Shaw, framed and glazed. £100 - £150
245. Forster (E.M., novelist and essayist, 1879-70) 2 au t o g r a p h
po S t C a r d S S i g n e d “mo r g a n” to mat t h e w hod g a rt o f pem b r o K e
Co l l e g e, Ca m b r i d g e, 2pp., 88 x 115mm., King’s College Cambridge,
June 1953 - 15th February 1955, answering a query about a work
he had written, “About 1900 I wrote “The Relation of Dryden to
Milton and Pope” for the College... Essay Prizes... [it] can’t have
any value... I never published it”, and inviting him to lunch to meet
“my friend Ahmed Ali”. £80 - £120
*** Matthew Hodgart (1916-96), academic; fought with the SOE
in the Second World War.
Ahmad Ali (1910-94), novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat
and scholar.
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Lot 247
246. [Armstrong (Terence, poet and journal editor, 1912-1970)],
“John Gawsworth.” im pat i e n C e, a u t o g r a p h m a n u S C r i p t S i g n e d,
8pp., with numerous corrections by the author, folds, browned, 4to,
16th January 1953; and 4 other related pieces, including an issue
of Truth magazine, with the short story printed, a copy of a flyer
advertising The Collected Poems of John Gawsworth, S i g n e d a n d
w i t h a S h o rt v e r S e b y gaw S w o r t h , and a copy of Lewis W. Cave’s
Cave’s Guide to Turf Culture, signed by the author, 1967, v.s., v.d.
(5). £250 - £350
*** Provenance: Given by Gawsworth to Lewis W. Cave, author of
Cave’s Guide to Turf Culture, 1967.
247. Einstein (Albert, theoretical physicist, 1879-1955) ty p e d
le t t e r S i g n e d to pe t e r g. Sta n l i S, Department of English,
University of Detroit, 1p., 4to, on blind-stamped headed paper
‘A.Einstein, 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey...’, 17th
November 1953, having received his letter, “In 1933 or 34, at the
beginning of the Hitler regime, I said to a reporter something about
the courageous attitude of a part of the German Churches towards
Nazism. I do not remember the precise text of this oral conversation
but with time it became vastly exaggerated and elaborated on to
such a degree that I could hardly recognize it myself”, and asking
him “not to mention it at all”, folds. £2,000 - £3,000
*** The late Dr. Stanlis was the one of world’s foremost scholars
on the British statesman Edmund Burke and was a student and
personal friend of the poet Robert Frost for 23 years.