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54. le t t e r s to an n i e fr a n C e s el g o o d o f wh i t f i e l d lo d g e, ea s t
du l w iC h gr o v e, many relating James Roger Smith, a Canadian
in the Black Watch, ?killed on the Western Front & S.B. Smith,
served in Egypt, numerous pp., postcards & envelopes (also a copy
“Memorial to the Fallen”, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1914 & 2 copies
of “Roll of Honour”, St. Barnabas Dulwich, 1914), folds, housed
in a custom made fold over box, v.s., v.d., 1915-19 (c. 220 pieces).
£400 - £600
*** James Roger Smith’s death. “... upon all accounts my son
obtained from officers & men of the Regiment [The Black Watch];
there seemed no doubt that the poor fellow was killed when carrying
our boy out of action, the machine gun man who went to the rescue
when Smith fell, had difficulty in disengaging our boy from Smith
who he stated was dead. My son firmly believes that that was the
case, & that there is no truth in him having died in hospital. Now,
there is not one man of the platoon left who was out that day.”
Many relating to James Roger Smith, a Canadian who came back
from working in Honolulu at the beginning of the war to join up
and was shot while attempting to rescue his lieutenant. An extensive
correspondence of to Elgood from Smith and her efforts to get his
letters published.
55. Miller (G.H.O., medical officer, RAMC, fl. 1916-19) [diaries],
vol. II-XVII, a u t o g r a p h m a n u s C r i p t, numerous pp., in pencil, vol. II
original roan, rubbed, the rest morocco-backed cloth, rubbed, sm.
8vo, 1916-19 (16). £400 - £600
*** Battle of the Somme. 1 July 1916. “Got up about 8.30 Bath
About midday the convoys began coming in. I gave a hand in the
theatre giving anaesthetics &c and at intervals helped in other ways.
I was mostly in the theatre taking notes of cases anaestheticising
&c. Sunday morning July 2nd. Ghastly wounds today. I don’t mind
anything now. Theatre like a shambles. Many amputations &c. I’m
become a regular anaesthetist it seems... . Went into reception room
& helped there.” - Miller.
56. Smith (Elizabeth Maud Alice, clerk in the Women’s Army
Auxiliary Corps 1917-19, 1887-1919) ph o t o g r a p h a l b u m, 101
photographs, several pieces of ephemera (registration cards and
dance cards from Unit 1 at Wimereaux, norther France), original
boards, 1917-19; and another album and a small quantity of
loose cards etc., housed in a modern cloth box, v.s., v.d. (sm. qty).
£300 - £350
57. Warren (J.P., Section 66, O Special Compy, Royal Engineers,
fl. 1917) di a ry a n d no t e b o o k, a u t o g r a p h m a n u s C r i p t, 291pp.
excluding blanks, slightly browned, inner hinges breaking, original
blind stamped cloth, edges a little rubbed and creased, 8vo, 1917;
and 7 others, diaries (including 1 war diary) of C.H. Bradley of the
8th Battalion Lincolnshire regiment, 1917-28, housed in modern
cloth boxes, v.s., v.d. (8). £300 - £350
*** 6 September 1917. “Back about 1.30 Fritz began to strafe
heavily with gas... till about 3.30 when we opened up.” - Warren.
LONDON
58. Beardsley (Aubrey, illustrator, 1872-98).- Gray (Rev. John
Henry, author and Roman Catholic priest, 1866-1934) dr a f t o f
a l e t t e r to messrs. lo n g m a n s, gr e e n & Co., p u b l i s h e r’s, 2pp.,
4to, on writing paper of the North British Station Hotel, Edinburgh,
[1904], in reply to their letter of 20 September 1904, concerning the
publication of The Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley, 1904, edited
by John Gray, the letter revealed to Longmans that Beardsley’s last
letters were mostly addressed to André Raffalovich, who did “not wish
his identity to transpire”. There is a reference on last line to Arthur
Symons’s monograph on Beardsley and to a forthcoming exhibition
of Beardsley’s drawings in Vienna, to Madame Strindberg’s interest
in a German translation of Beardsley’s letters and the rebuff given
her by Raffalovich, to the horrors of consumption and the power of
divine grace in Beardsley, torn in two along central fold, browned;
and a copy of the Aubrey Beardsley Exhibition at the Victoria and
Albert Museum 1966, v.s., v.d. (2). £300 - £350
*** André Raffalovich (1864-1934), writer; friend of Aubrey
Beardsley and life long companion of John Gray.
Provenance: Aubrey Beardsley Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert
Museum, 1966.
59. Hardy (Thomas, novelist and poet, 1840-1928).- al b u m,
including: au t o g r a p h po s t C a r d f r o m th o m a s ha r d y, thanking the
recipient for sending a letter, 24th January 1906, cut signatures of
Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Edward German, Arthur Bliss, Constant
Lambert, John Gielgud, Adrian Boult and letters of Hjalmar Schacht
and Sir Charles Hallé and others, and photographs (unsigned) of
Richard Strauss, Kirsten Flagstad and Sir Thomas Beecham etc., c.
100 pieces, most laid down, some loose, some album leaves loose,
some material excised, original cloth album, 4to, 1906-34 (c. 100
pieces). £300 - £400
60. James (Henry, novelist, 1843-1916) au t o g r a p h le t t e r s i g n e d
“un C l e” to h i s n e p h e w wi l l i a m Ja m e s , 4pp. & envelope (torn),
4to, Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, 15th July 1907, welcoming him to
England from Italy, “after a journey that I fear indeed must have
been beastly if you had to go through Oxford that same night”,
proposing possible days for meeting in London and going together
to Lamb House, “to great comfort & a lovely (if lonely) garden and
asking him to write, folds, slightly browned. £750 - £1,000
*** Apparently unpublished. Not in The Letters, edited by Lionel
Edel, 1974-84.
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