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JAMES, HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Mrs. Marland,” inquiring
whether he might bring the [first] curator of the Wallace Collection to tea. 1 page, 4to,
personal stationery; minor scattered smudging to text, folds; matted with portrait and
framed. (TFC)
Rye, 20 June 1906
[400/600]
“
I hope very much to be able to have the pleasure of coming up to tea on Sunday. I shall have
a friend with me . . . —Claude Phillips, curator of theWallace Collection.”
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KIPLING, RUDYARD. Brief Autograph Letter Signed, to “Dear Dr.
Champneys”: “I send you herewith to read a type-written copy of ‘The Battle of Rupert
Square’ [not present] of which I have spoken to you. May I ask you to return it when
read.” 1 page, 12mo, personal stationery, with integral blank; minor smudging to text, hori-
zontal folds.
Rottingdean, 28 August 1907
[300/400]
“JUST FINISHED” THE SCARLET PLAGUE
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LONDON, JACK. Autograph Letter Signed, to bibliographer Merle Johnson
(“Dear Mr. Johnson”), describing his new novel, asking whether he would read it, and
reporting that he was just made the father of a girl. 2 pages, 4to, lined paper, written on
rectos of two separate sheets, address and date stamped in ink at upper right of first page;
even toning overall, pin holes in upper corner, folds.
Glen Ellen, 20 June 1910
[1,000/2,000]
“
. . . I’ve got a twenty-thousand word yarn, just finished . . . . I kill off in it only something
like five billion human beings. . . . It is a pseudo-scientific story dealing with the things that
happened in the twenty-first century when a new micro-organic enemy smote mankind . . . .
Unfortunately, it is only 21,000 words long.Will you care to glance at it? . . . [I]f you say the
word I’ll attempt to get yarn off to you . . . . Have just had a visit from the Stork—a girl.”
The daughter of Jack and Charmian died 38 hours after she was born.
Does not appear in
Letters,
ed. Hendricks and Shepard.
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