Finlay, Ian Hamilton (1925-2006)
Collection of autograph letters signed and printed ephemera
Estimate: £200 - £300
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Including: 4 autograph letters signed to Violet Williamson of Thorntree Street, Leith, 1987, demonstrating personal familiarity ('You are a real pleasure to know', etc.), discussing Finlay's work and reading habits ('When I am tired or forlorn I always like to read Charles Lamb, or Coleridge, or Hazlitt'), 3 on Little Sparta or ‘Stately Hovels Association’ stationery, retaining 2 autograph envelopes, together with one letter to Williamson from Finlay's wife Sue Finlay; 2 slogan postcards relating to Finlay's feud with Waldemar Januszczak ('Repatriate Waldemar' and ‘Headley, Meulenkamp & Waldemar, Jeunesse Doré of the Counter-Revolution’), addressed to Violet Williamson in Finlay's hand; 9 Wild Hawthorn Press booklets (A Pretty Kettle of Fish, 1974, one of 350 copies signed by Finlay; Imitations, Variations, Reflections, Copies, 1976, one of 350 copies signed by Finlay; The Wild Hawthorn Wonder Book of Boats; The Animaxander Fragment; Heraclitean Variations, 1987, one of 200 copies; Loaves; Romances, Emblems, Enigmas; The Errata of Ovid, one of 300 copies); A Mast of Hankies; and 15 similar items including Wild Hawthorn Press printed cards (a folder)