Bloomsbury Auctions

248. James Joyce.- Weaver (Harriet Shaw, political activist and
journal editor, 1876-1961) 2 ty p e d le t t e r S S i g n e d to mat t h e w
ho d g a rt, 4pp., 8vo, Oxford & Saffron Walden, 13th January 1957
& 17th February 1959, thanking him for his letter and the typescript
of a book he had written, “You mention Mr Slocum’s James Joyce
Bibliography and I would just like to say that his claim on page 145
that I had prepared a list for the compilers of that book occupying
21 pages of typescript setting out the contents of the Finnegans
Wake manuscripts given to me by Mr Joyce was most certainly
incorrect. It was not made for those compilers, though I did let
Mr Slocum have a carbon copy of the list I made”, and the fate of
the manuscripts in her possession, “I had not at that time decided
which library to give the manuscripts to, inclining for a time to the
National Library of Ireland - but later coming to the conclusion that
they would be more generally accessible in the British Museum”,
folds. £300 - £400
*** Harriet Shaw supported James Joyce financially for many
years and continued to do so after they had a major disagreement at
her reservations over Finnegans Wake.
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249. Betjeman (Sir John, poet, 1906-84) no t e S f o r a p o e m f o r a
h e a d e d “ne v e r mi n d ho w fe w”, relating to Hackney and Stoke
Newington, most continuous section beginning: “We don’t want
slums but we do need human scale”, a u t o g r a p h m a n u S C r i p t, 1p., c.
15 lines, on headed notepaper, 43 C loth Fair, London, EC1, n.d.
£150 - £200
250. Heath-Stubbs (John, poet, 1918-2006) 2 au t o g r a p h le t t e r S
S i g n e d to te r e n C e ti l l e r, 9pp., 8vo & 4to, 35 Sutherland Place,
[London], 27th May 1963 & 18th November 1965, relating to a
project on Dante, folds. £75 - £100
251. Marsh (Edward & Gwen, translators, of 35 Tanza Road,
Hampstead, fl. 1960s - 80s) ar C h i v e, numerous manuscript and
typescript translations of various works, folds, creased, v.s., v.d.,
[twentieth century] (2 boxes). £150 - £200
*** Includes some letters from Alan Ayckbourn as Artistic Director
of the Theatre in the Round, Scarborough.
252. Sassoon (Siegfried, poet and writer, 1886-1967).- ty p e d
le t t e r to he S t e r a n d ge o r g e Sa S S o o n f r o m St e p h e n S o n ha rw o o d
& tat h a m, So l i C i t o r S, d i S C u S S i n g Sa S S o n’S f i n a n C i a l a f fa i r S, 4pp.,
sm. 4to, London, 12th February 1965, “I have been wondering if
there was any other way in which Siegfried could raise the funds
so that he would feel that he had more room for manoeuvre and I
realise that he would hate to part with any of the pictures which he
no doubt contemplates. I suspect that for sentimental reasons he
would be sad to part with any of the Manuscripts, but I would have
thought that their sale might be less noticeably painful to him than
that of the pictures”, folds. £80 - £120
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