Literary correspondence
A small collection including Alfred Richard Orage, Rosita Forbes and J.M. Barrie
Estimate: £400 - £600
Auction: 18 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
Orage, Alfred Richard. Five autograph letters, signed, letters written to the author of “An Outline of Social Credit”, H.M. Murray Esq., from 1913 - 1918, discussing moral and political issues, especially Orage's weekly Socialist magazine, “The New Age”;
Dane, Clemence. ALS to Miss B. Martin Stewart, organiser of the Edinburgh Women's Luncheon Club, accepting an invitation to lunch, undated by c.1930;
Forbes, Rosita. ALS to Miss B. Martin Stewart, regarding speaking at the Edinburgh Women's Luncheon Club, along with a TLS, probably sent the following year;
Masaryková, Alice. TLS to Miss B. Martin apologising that she cannot speak at the Club;
Barrie, J.M. ALS to Miss B. Martin Stewart dated 16th December 1931, apologising for being unable to speak at the Club;
along with 36 further letters from various prominent people (including John Buchan, to Miss Martin Stewart regarding the Club;
Spender, Stephen. Two autograph letters, signed, referring to “the Aldington letters”, sent August and September 1962;
Day Lewis, C. Short ALS dated 6.5.49, sending an autograph;
Galsworthy, John. Short, apologetic ALS, dated 22nd May 1922;
and several others (quantity)