Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

276 277 276 c   WELLS, H.G. Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Mr. Hackett,” asking to be advised by his friends at the New Republic in preparation for reporting on the Washington Naval Conference and giving his address for correspondence. 2 pages, small 4to, personal stationery; moderate staining along upper edge, minor loss to upper right corner, folds. Great Dunmow, 28 September 1921 [400/600] “I am coming over to write about theWashington Conference for a group of newspapers. . . . I shall stay about a week in NewYork. I’d be very grateful for a chance of meeting some of the New Republic crowd & being told things about which I’m appallingly ignorant, as e.g., who is Senator [William E.] Borah? . . . “It will be very interesting[?] spending six weeks inWashington & talking to people. I’m not going to lecture or do anything but just write about 25 short articles. . . .” Washington and the Hope of Peace was published in 1922; it contained the articlesWells wrote for the NewYorkWorld , the ChicagoTribune , and other newspapers while he attended theWashington Naval Conference, held inWashington, DC, between November 1921 and February 1922. 277 c   WELLS, H.G. Autograph Letter Signed, to London bookseller Townley Searle (“Dear Sir”), asking him about a dream he had. 1 1 / 2 pages, oblong 12mo, written on the recto and verso of a correspondence card; remnants of prior mounting along right edge verso, faint scattered foxing. [London], 30 May 1927 [400/600] “I may possibly mention the story about you in the Express this morning in an article I am writing on dreams. I’d be very much obliged if you could tell me whether you said anything about your dream to anyone before finding the book in box in Caledonian Market.” In the July 10, 1927, issue of the Sunday Express , in an article entitled “The Way the World is Going,” Wells recounts the story of Townley Searle, who dreamed of finding a valuable edition of a Thomas Hardy book in a stall at a Caledonian Market; visiting the market on the next morning, Searle found a similar Hardy book in a stall of the same description.