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GREENAWAY, KATE. Autograph Letter Signed, to the wife of engraver Edmond
Evans (“Dear Mrs. Evans”), complaining that the cook had become ill preventing her from
going to to Brantwood and spoiling her holidays, mentioning her visits to Lincolnshire and
Cromer, anticipating a visit to Lady Tennyson, expressing an interest in the history of
Witley, inquiring after the health of Mr. Evans and hoping that he would write, and
remarking that Johnny has gone to Robin Hoods Bay. 4 pages, 12mo, mourning stationery.
(AKF)
Hampstead, 11 September 1895
[350/500]
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. . . I have been into Lincolnshire and to Cromer . . . . I have heard the People talk often of
their experiences . . . . I think I am going to stay with Lady Tennyson for a few days.
“
The History of Witley seems to me to be very sad, everyone leaving their Houses, it seems so
miserable . . . .
“
You don’t say if Mr. Evans is really better. Can he sketch at all? . . . “
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KENT, ROCKWELL. Small archive of letter drafts, personal notes, and various
manuscripts, mostly fragments, including 6 Autograph Manuscripts, unsigned, two being
drafts of the title-page and preface for the 1970 Wilderness Press edition of
Wilderness
, and
3 Autograph Letters, unsigned, one being a retained copy of a letter to the U.S.
Department of State concerning an alleged crime he committed against the government of
Newfoundland. Together 24 pages, mostly 4to.
Vp, [1911-70]
[1,500/2,500]
Undated letter, to Mr. Kaufman of the U.S. Department of State: “. . . I want . . . to claim of the depart-
ment of state a vindication of my honor against the charges . . . of the government of Newfoundland. The
crime of which I am accused and made to suffer for without a hearing is one peculiarly offensive to me.
The protection that I claimed of the government is such as American citizens generally [feel] themselves
entitled to. The fact that I was not afforded it . . .
stands in my mind as a barrier to the loyalty I
would owe my country. . . .”
Another letter, circa 1918, written to the owner of
the house that was his childhood home: “. . . I
have no money and no certain income and I want
to pay for the use of the place with the work that I
do which is painting pictures. . . .
“
. . . A painting of mine hangs now in the
Metropolitan Museum in New York, . . . and
there’s one in the collection of Mr. H.C. Frick . . . .
“
. . . My mother is now a near neighbor of yours
in Tarrytown. . . .”
Fragment from an unknown work on “Rockwell
Kent Incorporated” stationery, circa 1919:
“Infinity hangs heavy in God’s hands. Imagine it!
Even the softest of cloud cushions on the most
ample and restfully proportioned throne that the
religious human soul in its utterest transport of
divine worship can image as God’s own— . . .
Even that cushioned throne groans hard under the
age-long burden . . . .”
WITH
—
over 30 letters from either Sally Kent
Gorton (Kent’s widowed wife) or her husband
John F.H. Gorton (Director of the Rockwell Kent
Legacies), each to author and illustrator Fridolf
Johnson. Vp, 1976-87.
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